From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 21 10:06:08 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40C3837B401 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:06:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from scuzzy.ben.algroup.co.uk (pc252.siliconnetwork.co.uk [194.205.132.252]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E1B443FB1 for ; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:06:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@algroup.co.uk) Received: from algroup.co.uk (wiese.ben.algroup.co.uk [193.133.15.150]) by scuzzy.ben.algroup.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id A02078B991; Mon, 21 Apr 2003 17:06:05 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <3EA424FB.2030302@algroup.co.uk> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:06:03 +0100 From: Ben Laurie User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-GB; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030401 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Oberman References: <20030421153337.0458E5D04@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: <20030421153337.0458E5D04@ptavv.es.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.74.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD Current Subject: Re: Laptop update... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 17:06:08 -0000 Kevin Oberman wrote: >>But most importantly, perhaps, when I do: >> >>portupgrade -Rra >> >>it almost never completes, because I get coredumps in cc (and >>occasionally weirder symptoms, like illegal instructions). I know this >>is usually attributed to RAM, but I've tried swapping that out - so, >>what else can I fiddle with that might affect this (and the other >>problems)? More info available on demand, of course. > > > This is disturbing as I have been seeing similar problems on my T30 for > a week. Attempting to buildworld bombs after 3 or 4 minutes in various > places. memtest86 found no memory problems. I have not run any CPU > diagnostics, but was assuming a hardware problem. (I still am). Interesting. I haven't tried memtest86 (where does that come from?), but PC-DOCTOR, which IBM supply, says all is well. > Unlike my previous experience with this sort of thing, it seems to > happen about the same whether the system is hot or cold. Mine always dies part way through trying to rebuild the X server. Whcih, I guess, is somewhat regular. > Has any A or T series ThinkPad owner built a new CURRENT system over the > past week? Note that mine is RELENG, not CURRENT. I'm happy to migrate if its thought useful. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert Woodruff