From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 27 18:31:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6137C159BF for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 18:30:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stuyman@confusion.net) Received: from confusion.net (user-2iveakd.dialup.mindspring.com [165.247.42.141]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA13259; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 21:30:25 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3890FF00.53D88D7C@confusion.net> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 21:29:20 -0500 From: Laurence Berland Organization: B.R.A.T.T. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Chen Cc: R Joseph Wright , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why Doesn't XFree86 Upgrade Properly References: <3.0.32.20000128074338.00740384@idx.com.au> <3890AF42.21F5F672@nwlink.com> <20000128100929.H3290@jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Logical and oft-quoted extension: If you think you've got a hardware problem, try building something big. Too many people report panics on make buildworlds only to find it's the first sign of the death of their RAM. Laurence Jonathan Chen wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2000 at 12:49:06PM -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote: > > > You could try building it from a port, although when I did, the kernel > > panicked and rebooted. > > Building a port will *never* panic your system unless you've got hardware > problems. > > Jonathan Chen > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > "By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, > the other dwarves began to suspect 'Hungry' ..." - Gary Larson > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Laurence Berland, Stuyvesant HS Debate <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> Windows 98: n. useless extension to a minor patch release for 32-bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand for 1 bit of competition. http://stuy.debate.net icq #7434346 aol imer E1101 The above email Copyright (C) 2000 Laurence Berland All rights reserved To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message