Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:05:18 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude <siegbert.baude@gmx.de> To: "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Error during make INSTALLworld Message-ID: <39A3DA1E.C267C603@gmx.de>
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Hello, Iīm tracking 4.x STABLE normally without any problems, but faced some problems tonight and want to know: First question: Do I have a stable system now? Should I repeat the cvsup and make world? Second question: Why did the first make installworld fail? Kernel and buildworld were o.k. then! Third question: This was the first time I rebooted to single user mode instead of just "shutdown now". Is there any possibility that a new kernel with old userland can cause problems during "make installworld"? Fourth question: Are there any tools to check RAM integrity? Fifth question: In case this happens again, which information is important to gather, to be really able to hunt down the error? A FAQ or any RTFM? What happened tonight: - CVSupped - make buildworld without problems - make buildkernel KERNEL=LILITH and machine locked completely (no mouse or keys, only hard reset, no entry in logs, no core) - in the BIOS I checked processor temperature: within normal range (49°C, (about 115 Fahrenheit ???)) 3,3V level measured as 3,49V everything else within 1% tolerance, fans are working - rebooted to single user mode, to prevent any amoking daemons - make buildkernel KERNEL=LILITH again, this time no problem - make installkernel - reboot to single user mode - make installworld -> system lock with PAGE FAULT 12 (how can you stop the reboot countdown there or copy the message output? "Any key will reboot" was stated there, should I have tried ScrollLock nevertheless?) I remembered hints on this list, that PAGE FAULT 12 often points to faulty RAM, so checked RAM settings in the BIOS: I found that I had tweaked the CAS-Latency from 3 to 2 (Celeron FSB only 66MHz, with 100MHZ RAM, thought this should be safe; I changed this about half a year ago and with none of my systems on this machine faced ever any problems. But I added last week a SCSI-adapter with HD, CD and CD-RW. Can this influence the RAM-timing? Or maybe a slightly higher temperature in the case is just over the frontier of the RAM then?) - went back to standard RAM timing as suggested by SPD - booted to single user mode - make installworld again -> error some file not found ??? It was after 2 a.m. then, I decided to go to bed, to not produce any errors because of being too tired. Thought I could easily reproduce this error today, so I didnīt write down the exact error position. Today: - boot to single user mode - make installworld to reproduce the error position Surprise: install without glimpse ! - left single user mode, checked logs: no errors, write down this mail Used hardware: ASUS P2B, Celeron 400, 128M DIMM 100Mhz, Elsa Erazor II, NIC with Realtek 8139 bash-2.04$ uname -a FreeBSD lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de 4.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE #0: Wed Aug 23 01:55:53 CEST 2000 coocoo@lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LILITH i386 Any comments really appreciated Thanks in advance Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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