From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 9 05:48:43 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEC2916A4FD for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 05:48:42 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E3EA43D45 for ; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 05:48:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D69915DA3; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 01:48:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 69821-09; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 01:48:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-161-53-96.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.53.96]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C62F75C85; Sat, 9 Apr 2005 01:48:40 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42576CB8.3080302@mac.com> Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 01:48:40 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050319 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: fadeaway@gmail.com References: <9603522236e10dbddacdb000cb7e8c08@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9603522236e10dbddacdb000cb7e8c08@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: segfaults when building world X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2005 05:48:43 -0000 fadeaway@gmail.com wrote: [ ... ] > One thing to note, when I buildworld it will exit at different points. > I also confirmed this with doing `time make buildworld`, the time > changes with each attempt as well. If the compile were to fail in the same place, every time, there would be a chance that it might be a problem with the source code. However, if the compile fails in different places-- which is your case-- that's almost certainly a hardware problem such as your system overheating under load, a marginal power supply, or bad RAM. Check your CPU fan and other cooling, and try running memtest.org's checker overnight and see what that gives.... -- -Chuck