From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jun 15 08:02:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA12783 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 08:02:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bagpuss.visint.co.uk (bagpuss.visint.co.uk [194.207.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA12778 for ; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 08:02:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dylan.visint.co.uk (dylan.visint.co.uk [194.207.134.180]) by bagpuss.visint.co.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA07754; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 16:02:00 +0100 (BST) Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 16:02:00 +0100 (BST) From: Stephen Roome To: Wolfgang Helbig cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange things afoot In-Reply-To: <199706131803.UAA10160@helbig.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Wolfgang Helbig wrote: > Hi, > > So I then go into that directory and do a make depend. After I've then > > installed all the extra bits of code it needs which mkbisdntree didn't put > > Which `extra bits of code' are you refering to? The only files that are > needed for compilation and are not installed by mkbisdntree are > /usr/sys.bisdn/i386/include/bisdn_ioctl.h > and > /usr/sys.bisdn/i386/include/bisdn_isdn.h Yup, those (and I'm not sure, but I think there were some other bisdn_*.h files as well?) but also running one of the patches completely messed up /usr/src/sys/ufs/ffs/ffs_extern.h. That's the really odd bit, because I can't find any ffs_extern references in any of the files... I think the drive might be dead, so I've found an identical machine and I'm using that now, hopefully this one will work. I'll have to wait and see. > > Instead these files are copied to /usr/include/machine which in turn is a > symbolic link to /sys/i386/include once you did a ``make world'' on your > machine. I'll leave it to do a make world on the old box, but only once I have a backup of everything. I expect it's just these cheap IDE drives that's causing this. > This is interesting, because ``make world'' is considered to be a very > good hardware tester, and your problems might be hardware caused. So if > you have about 250 Mbyte left on your /usr partition give it a try and > see what happens. I'm going to wipe the disk from the BIOS and see if that finds any errors. After that I'll leave it looping make clean and world. (to a typescript!) I'll probably also try putting a reboot in at the end of rc.local and then leaving it starting up and shutting down for a few hours =), it'll give fsck a chance and it should give it a bit of a workout =) Many Thanks for the help. Steve Roome.