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Date:      Thu, 3 Apr 1997 18:12:22 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Satoshi Asami <asami@vader.cs.berkeley.edu>
Cc:        dufault@hda.com, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: I've survived make world.
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970403181049.4089B-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <199704031036.CAA17928@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>

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On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Satoshi Asami wrote:

>  * I've survived make world from Monday.  On a Compaq Presario of all things
>  * with no SCSI.  I've built world twice with that build. It has been
>  * solid as a single user workstation.
> 
> I've survived a make world from 3/24, 3/26 and 3/31.  (In fact, this
> is the machine that "packages-current" is built from now.)  This is a
> P6-200 with an IDE system disk and 3940W with a Seagate ST15150W.
> 
> However, the NFS client appears to be hopelessly broken (I don't know
> about the NFS server, this machine isn't one).  I initially had the
> ports/distfiles pointing to a directory on an NFS server (running
> FreeBSD-2.1.5).  At some point during the package builds, a process
> locks up trying to read/write a distfile, and the whole NFS system
> went down on this machine (I could still login as "root", as long as I
> didn't try to touch NFS-mounted directories).  I changed
> ports/distfiles to a local directory and it appears to be fairly
> stable since then.

I can reproduce this reliably on my test system now.  Just run make world
(nfs mounted source, local obj), cvs update (nfs mounted source and dest)
and rm -rf largetree (nfs mounted) all at the same time.

I should have a fix for this tomorrow.

--
Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 951 1891




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