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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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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

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