Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 21:21:37 +0100 From: Kirill Ponomarew <krion@FreeBSD.org> To: "Brian J. McGovern" <bmcgover@cisco.com> Cc: sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: buildkernel fails Message-ID: <20040302202137.GC45352@voodoo.oberon.net> In-Reply-To: <200403021434.i22EYWgx000366@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> References: <20040302142512.GG41765@voodoo.oberon.net> <200403021434.i22EYWgx000366@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com>
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--IpbVkmxF4tDyP/Kb Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 09:34:32AM -0500, Brian J. McGovern wrote: > I'm no expert on Sparc, but this has a classic symptom of bad memory or t= he > supporting hardware. >=20 > For chuckles, try rerunning the command w/o cleaning up in between. If you > eventually make it through, odds are, its RAM. Depending on how bad the r= am > is, you may have to do this alot (had a bad x86 box, recently, where a=20 > buildworld took some 30 attempts, but made it). >=20 > If it was dying in the same place repeatedly, I'd suspect bad code, and t= hen > bad tools, in that order. :) I run today sysutils/crashme for testing memory, and got successful results (I don't have "test-memory" in OpenBoot). Well, I'll try to investigate it further. -Kirill --IpbVkmxF4tDyP/Kb Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAROzRQC1G6a60JuURAtHgAKC2jp9gWqI6mK26lmBhWdr3te1nXQCcDMOP /fC+ifIE535mtcbtiqNUC68= =5lEl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --IpbVkmxF4tDyP/Kb--
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