Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 16:35:10 +0100 From: Alex Zbyslaw <xfb52@dial.pipex.com> To: Federico Canton <federico@michosa.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Buildworld fails 6.0-RELEASE-p4 Message-ID: <446B42AE.5010300@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: <200605171425.k4HEPZtm040558@casa.michosa.com> References: <200605171425.k4HEPZtm040558@casa.michosa.com>
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Federico Canton wrote: >Hello, I have not been able to successfully buildworld for a few months. My >last succesfull buildworld was on 1/25/06. > >$ uname -a >FreeBSD casa.michosa.com 6.0-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE-p4 #0: Wed Jan >25 17:25:16 PST 2006 root@casa.michosa.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL >i386 > >Buildworld failed when I was trying to update to RELENG_6, and I thought it >was a bug that would be fixed by RELENG_6_1. Now that 6.1 has been released >I have tried many times, but still every time buildworld fails at a >different place. Below I added the last two times it failed. > > If buildworld fails at a different place every time then you probably have bad memory*. Try memtest86+, memtest86 or if you have multiple sticks, try using each one in turn on its own and see if you still get the failure. --Alex (*) It might be some other hardware problem, but bad memory is probably the most frequent and hopefully easiest to diagnose. Other possibilities include bad memory socket, or just bad seating.
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