From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 3 1:32:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E901337B401 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 01:32:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (mta07-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.47]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B81A43E4A for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 01:32:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jacs@gnome.co.uk) Received: from hawk.gnome.co.uk ([80.6.124.18]) by mta07-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20021003083220.DATS28004.mta07-svc.ntlworld.com@hawk.gnome.co.uk> for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 09:32:20 +0100 Received: from hawk.gnome.co.uk (localhost.gnome.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) by hawk.gnome.co.uk (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g938W7it001117; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 09:32:07 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jacs@hawk.gnome.co.uk) Message-Id: <200210030832.g938W7it001117@hawk.gnome.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Brandon S Allbery KF8NH Cc: Kris Kennaway , Clive Lin , Robert Withrow , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Segfaults and bus errors in 4.6.2? In-Reply-To: Message from Brandon S Allbery KF8NH of "02 Oct 2002 23:35:04 EDT." <1033616117.21852.8.camel@pyanfar.ece.cmu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 09:32:07 +0100 From: Chris Stenton Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 22:56, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 04:33:03AM +0800, Clive Lin wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 03:56:42PM -0400, Robert Withrow wrote: > > > > In the referenced message I reported a problem with segfaults and bus errors > > > > when building openoffice on a FreeBSD 4.6.2-RELEASE system. I'm still having this problem when I built anything large. > > > > > > > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=648314+655734+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-questions/20020915.freebsd-questions > > > > > > This reminds me a hot thread on -current several months ago, a > > > specific (?) problem on Pentium IV. > > > > Those are also options for -current only. > > For what it's worth, I'm seeing similar problems on a laptop with Mobile > Pentium IV processor, only when doing large compiles. They started > after a build/installworld after a cvsup on 20 September. Swapping > memory out had no effect. (The BIOS has no memory timing options that I > could find.) > > (The problem was partially masked by the cc/cpp0 problem that also > showed up in that cvsup, but which has been since resolved; I got around > that one by building the new world with gcc 3.1 from ports and then > rebuilding with the base cc ASAP after the installworld.) > I had the same problem with 4.6.2 on my server thats been running fine for a couple of years. I had to perform a buildworld 4 times. I found putting it in single user mode helped. I've found that once I got 4.7-RC1 to compile and install big compiles have been working fine. Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message