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Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 19:18:16 +0100
From: Elliott Miller <elmo@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: system crash when using 'make'
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Hmm.. I was hoping it wouldnt be a hardware problem

Does anyone know a good piece of diagnostic software I could run to check?

It can run under freeBSD or Win95


Studded wrote:


> I hate to say it, but odd crashes that happen only when compiling
> (which stresses all hardware parts of the system) sounds like bad ram to
> me.
>
> Doug
>
> Elliott Miller wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I am new to FreeBSD,  and have recently installed v 2.2.6 using the
> > Complete FreeBSD book as guidance.
> >
> > Every thing works fine apart from one thing.......
> >
> > Whenever I do 'make' either to build a port or rebuid the kernal, at
> > some point through compilation the machine will crash with something
> > like this message:
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Fatal trap 12:             page fault while in kernal mode
> > fault virtual address     = 0x8:573c418
> > fault code                   = supervisor read, page not present
> > instruction pointer       = 0x8:0xf01ba1f7
> > stack pointer              = 0x10:0xefbff9fc
> > frame pointer             = 0x10:0xefbffa00
> > code segment             = base 0x0, linit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
> >                                  = DPL 0, pres1, def 321, gran 1
> > processor eflags        = interupt enabled, resume, IOPL=0
> > current process         = 467(ccl)
> > interupt mask            =
> > panic: page fault
> >
> > syncing disks......
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > I get the impression that its trying to reboot,  but it dosn't, at this
> > point I have to do a hard reboot.
> >
> > It dosn't happen every time (I managed to port xemacs on the fifth
> > attempt) and its never at the same point,  but its only when I run
> > 'make'.
> >
> > As you can imagine this is ***really*** annoying.
> >
> > Does anyone know why this is happening or (preferably) how to correct
> > the problem?
> >
> > My system: Pentium 100,  1GB HD (DOS) 4GB HD (2GB DOS/ 1GB FreeBSD/ rest
> > unused) 40MB RAM
> >
> > cheers
> >
> > elmo
> >
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