From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 15:54:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA15182 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 15:54:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ime.net (ime.net [204.97.248.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA15177 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 15:53:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kimiko.tcguy.net (buxton-1.ime.net [206.231.148.130]) by ime.net (8.7.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA20539; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 18:52:55 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <31E19146.60D1@ime.net> Date: Mon, 08 Jul 1996 18:52:54 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler Reply-To: tcg@ime.net Organization: The Computer Guy X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b4Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: James Raynard CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: makeing world References: <199607071029.KAA01447@jraynard.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk James Raynard wrote: > > > > > I'm having problems making world, It keeps crashing and I don't > > > > get a chance to see the screen before it re-boots and eats > > > > my source tree. > > > > > > Any clues in /var/log/messages? > > > > Nope, Nothing.. I looked even though I didn't think make writes > > anything to log/messages. > > It doesn't, but if there's a system problem (like a panic) it should > get logged. > Yea, But nothing.. > My suspicion is that you ran out of virtual memory; when this happens, > FreeBSD starts killing off processes to try and make more room, and it > may have killed off init(8) by mistake. I don't think you'd get a log > entry in these circumstances. > I geuss, It did complete in single user so... Kind of afraid to try it again in multiuser, It ate my src tree. (No big deal though) -Enjoy Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848