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Date:      Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:23:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Bryce Newall <data@dreamhaven.org>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions List <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Buildworld error
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.44.0210161521500.120-100000@dreamhaven.org>
In-Reply-To: <3DADE326.8030006@owt.com>

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On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Kent Stewart wrote:

> FWIW, the kernmalloc.ms line appears 92% of the way into the build.

Doh!  Hate when it dies so close to the end...

> You could have some sort of hardware failure that is dying with the
> truncation error instead of giving you a signal error and dying. An HD
> that is overheating or something similar. Did you try the buildworld
> more than once?

3 times, actually, and it failed in the same place every time.  With that
in mind, I'm pretty sure it's not a hardware problem (though I've run into
those before, too... usually I get a signal 10 or 11 with that).

> I checked on vgrind and only the Makefile has changed in the last
> year. I wonder if you have corrupted sources for it. You could always
> cd /usr/src/usr.bin/vgrind and try rebuilding it and see if that
> helps. Otherwise, I would remove everything in the vgrind directory,
> re-cvsup 4-stable, and try doing a buildworld again.

I'll give that a try and let you know what happens.  Thanks!

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