Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:08:47 +0200 From: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: buildworld failures on STABLE Message-ID: <4709048F.4050009@intersonic.se> In-Reply-To: <20071007102041.GB8676@svzserv.kemerovo.su> References: <4708A05C.4090001@intersonic.se> <20071007094011.GA77602@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <20071007102041.GB8676@svzserv.kemerovo.su>
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Eugene Grosbein wrote: > On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:40:11AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > >>> On a remote machine currently with RELENG-6 from 20th. June, with STABLE >>> sources from this morning I get build failures in contrib/ similar to: >> <snip> >>> /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../../../../contrib/gcc/lcm.c:801: internal >>> compiler error: Segmentation fault: 11 >> <snip> >>> Would this indicate a hardware (memory) problem? >> Yes. The compiler dying with signal 11 is a typical memory problem. >> >>> Any way to test remotely? >> There are memory test applications like memtest86+ (http://www.memtest.org/). >> You have to boot from it, but it does support a console on a serial port. > > There is also ports/sysutils/memtest that may be run from multiuser > if one manages to build it with broken memory :-) > Or it's possible to install a package. > > One problem with running such application with OS loaded is that > kernel places strict limit to amount of memory that user-level application > may lock. There is a PR with a patch that allows to raise the limit > so memtest could test most part of free memory: > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/114654 Thanks for the memtest advice, I ran it and memory is definitely hosed. Sigh, that means 400 kilometers of travel... Per olof
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