From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 14 20:35:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 D7C0216A41F for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:35:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dalroi@solfertje.student.utwente.nl) Received: from solfertje.student.utwente.nl (solfertje.student.utwente.nl [130.89.167.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7901C43D45 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:35:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dalroi@solfertje.student.utwente.nl) Received: from [10.236.150.4] (hollewijn.internal [10.236.150.4]) by solfertje.student.utwente.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 453577D74; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:47:03 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <4415742B.8050205@mac.com> References: <74B9D1C5-5786-475B-99E6-18384B071EFB@solfertje.student.utwente.nl> <4415742B.8050205@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Alban Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 21:35:41 +0100 To: Chuck Swiger X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Cc: freebsd-stable Subject: Re: Segfaults from gcc, awk and Zend; advice needed 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: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 20:35:44 -0000 On Mar 13, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Alban wrote: >> For some reason I'm getting more or less random segfaults compiling >> kernels, world or PHP5 on BETA-3 (Python and perl went ok). So far I >> haven't succeeded building a fresh kernel or world. This system is an >> Athlon XP with 1MB RAM and 4GB swap, compiling is done in the usual >> places in /usr, which is a set of two gstriped partitions. Dmesg >> attached. > > If the crashes aren't repeatable (ie, the compiler segfaults in > different places > if you re-do the make), that's an almost sure sign of hardware > problems like > overheating. Looks like you were right. After setting hw.acpi.cx_lowest to C2 I was able to finally compile a custom kernel. After vacuuming my CPU fan and putting the ventilator in a better position the buildworld succeeded at the 1st pass. Thanks for putting me on the right track. -- Alban Hertroys "If you can't see the forest through the trees, cut the trees and you'll see there is no forest"