Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 10:56:22 -0100 From: Malte Lance <malte@webmore.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: system unstable, how to make it stable again ? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19980131104820.00696760@cyclone.degnet.baynet.de>
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At 08:05 31.01.98 +1030, you wrote: >On Fri, Jan 30, 1998 at 02:21:34PM -0100, Malte Lance wrote: >> At 09:12 30.01.98 +1030, you wrote: >> FreeBSD-2.1.5 (nooo, dont tell me to upgrade) >Why not? It could be part of the problem. Hm, after running for months without any problems ? I have disklabeled / and /usr with disktab-entries that are parially wrong. That never caused any problems so i was always too lazy to correct it. And now i hesitate to update a broken system. I am considering a fresh install to be the better way to go. On the other hand i have installed many ports and configured the machine to be mail-hub, NS, www, caching-proxy and firewall. It would take many days of configuration-work to get a fresh install to the same point. >You've got a lot of peripherals on this machine. Can you see any >connection between peripheral activity and the hangups? Nope. The funny thing is, when the machine freezes, the harddrives, when accessed at this moment, dont even have time to switch the lights off. >How are you >running the ISDN board? Not configured for FreeBSD => not used with FreeBSD. >Do you get any error messages from the SCSI >system? I seem to recall that there were problems with the 2940 >driver in 2.1.5, and that's an area where you're less likely to have >problems with Microsoft, since they don't use the SCSI bus to its full >potential. No errors from the SCSI-system. A few days ago i replugged the Sony-DAT but did not use it so far, just one tar-backup on /usr >> At least my question could be reduced to: Is it possible to get a >> running system without anything else, like bootstrapping a >> compiler ? > >I don't quite understand the question. When writing a compiler for an absolute new system, you dont have another compiler to get it compiled. So you need to write a minimal compiler to compile your new compiler, that in another turn could compile itself. So transfering it to my problem i ask, what is the minimal set of properly working apps and libs needed to get through a make world. This minimal set could be taken as compiled versions from the CDROM. Then enter make world and let the system cure itself. Malte Lance malte@webmore.com > >Greg >
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