From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 01:05:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA15275 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 01:05:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay-1.mail.demon.net (relay-1.mail.demon.net [158.152.1.140]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA15266 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 01:05:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from post.demon.co.uk ([158.152.1.72]) by relay-1.mail.demon.net id ab06661; 8 Jul 96 9:05 +0100 Received: from jraynard.demon.co.uk ([158.152.42.77]) by relay-3.mail.demon.net id ab10032; 7 Jul 96 15:47 +0100 Received: (from fqueries@localhost) by jraynard.demon.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA01447; Sun, 7 Jul 1996 10:29:20 GMT Date: Sun, 7 Jul 1996 10:29:20 GMT Message-Id: <199607071029.KAA01447@jraynard.demon.co.uk> From: James Raynard To: tcg@ime.net CC: questions@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <31DF553C.677A@ime.net> (message from Gary Chrysler on Sun, 07 Jul 1996 02:12:12 -0400) Subject: Re: makeing world Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > > I'm having problems making world, It keeps crashing and I don't > > > get a chance to see the screen before it re-boots and eats > > > my source tree. > > > > Any clues in /var/log/messages? > > Nope, Nothing.. I looked even though I didn't think make writes > anything to log/messages. It doesn't, but if there's a system problem (like a panic) it should get logged. My suspicion is that you ran out of virtual memory; when this happens, FreeBSD starts killing off processes to try and make more room, and it may have killed off init(8) by mistake. I don't think you'd get a log entry in these circumstances. -- James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland james@jraynard.demon.co.uk http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/