From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 7 11:10:58 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E3AE16A41F for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:10:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from smtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1AA243D5C for ; Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:10:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from xfb52@dial.pipex.com) Received: from [82.41.253.228] ([82.41.253.228]) by smtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:11:46 +0000 Message-ID: <436F363D.6060404@dial.pipex.com> Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 11:10:53 +0000 From: Alex Zbyslaw User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-GB; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20051106 X-Accept-Language: en-us, pl MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Micah References: <436E739E.8020605@ywave.com> <200511061724.53128.akbeech@gmail.com> <436EBF38.6000309@ywave.com> In-Reply-To: <436EBF38.6000309@ywave.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Nov 2005 11:11:46.0764 (UTC) FILETIME=[0AE518C0:01C5E38C] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Diagnosing reboot under load X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2005 11:10:58 -0000 Micah wrote: > Except it reboot later when rebuilding the KDE stuff with portinstall > NOT the Gnome script. And I'm getting occasional segmentation faults > on Thunderbird and intermittent compiler errors like this one while > portinstalling kdepim: > then mv -f ".deps/eudora_xxport.Tpo" ".deps/eudora_xxport.Plo"; else > rm -f ".deps/eudora_xxport.Tpo"; exit 1; fi > eudora_xxport.cpp: In member function `virtual KABC::AddresseeList > EudoraXXPort::importContacts(const QString&) const': > eudora_xxport.cpp:121: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault > Please submit a full bug report, > with preprocessed source if appropriate. > See for instructions. > While I agree with the previous poster that the upgrade script is a pig (why does it silently update ports which have *nothing* to do with gnome?) that is not you problem. The script may take all day, or all week, to finish, but it *should* finish. You have a *hardware* problem. Random segfaults are a classic bad memory symptom. Whether you have a memory stick that is going permanently, or getting too hot, or not getting enough voltage under load I cannot say, but but one of them or something like it is happening. > Something seems wrong. I don't think a software error should cause a > system reboot without any log messages anywhere. With a memory fault (or any other hardware fault) all bets are off. Think about it. If the program and data that you are supposed to be running become corrupted, how on earth can the kernel guarantee to write something to a log file? It was doing exactly what it was supposed to do and then it got fed garbage. Garbage in, garbage out - that's been true since forever and isn't going to change. --Alex