From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 5 16:48:30 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2111C106564A for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 16:48:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB8FF8FC12 for ; Thu, 5 Mar 2009 16:48:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-stable@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LfGkD-0003Xl-IO for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:48:25 +0000 Received: from mulderlab.f5.com ([205.229.151.151]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:48:25 +0000 Received: from atkin901 by mulderlab.f5.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:48:25 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Mark Atkinson Followup-To: gmane.os.freebsd.stable Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:48:11 -0800 Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: <87wsb5clk9.fsf@chateau.d.lf> <200903051028.06645.darius@dons.net.au> <87iqmohcl5.fsf@chateau.d.lf> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: mulderlab.f5.com User-Agent: KNode/0.99.01 Sender: news Subject: Re: GCC segfaulting while trying to compile latest Qt4 code X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 16:48:33 -0000 Ashish SHUKLA wrote: > Daniel O'Connor writes: >> On Thursday 05 March 2009 02:44:14 Ashish SHUKLA wrote: >>> Hi everone, >>> >>> While trying to update my 'qt4-gui' port, gcc segfaults during >>> compilation. I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE (amd64 architecture) updated >>> on 3rd March, 2009. > >> I would not rule out a hardware problem - seg faults while compiling >> heavy code (ie big C++ projects :) can be indicative of >> memory/CPU/PSU/motherboard problems. > > Okay, but I even tried compiling that file manually and that also > resulted in segfault. > >> I'd suggest running memtest86 and prime95 for a few hours if you can. > > I'll try running memtest86. > > Thanks I believe superpages were mfc'd to -stable as well. I have one machine that faults in gcc with this turned on. You can try adding vm.pmap.pg_ps_enabled="0" to /boot/loader.conf, rebooting and see if that fixes the problem. If so, you might provide the list with your hardware configuration. For reference: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.current/110586/focus=111337 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.current/111307 -- Mark Atkinson atkin901@yahoo.com (!wired)?(coffee++):(wired);