From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 2 20:13:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B51116A412 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 20:13:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from angie@alphabox.net) Received: from p15125203.pureserver.info (p15125203.pureserver.info [217.160.182.239]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7927943D5E for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 20:13:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from angie@alphabox.net) Received: from [10.0.1.2] (85-210-181-189.dsl.pipex.com [85.210.181.189]) (authenticated (0 bits)) by p15125203.pureserver.info (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id kA2KDfi17939 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 20:13:41 GMT Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v749.3) In-Reply-To: <20061102190204.GA95330@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1B6DFE5B-A4D4-48B8-AD72-4256A2462804@alphabox.net> <20061102190204.GA95330@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <7D5DF2D8-24F4-4582-90F3-3CEFE01E9A8E@alphabox.net> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Angie Ahl Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 20:13:39 +0000 To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.749.3) Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1 problems on AMD64 Athlon 3800 - crashes from day 1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:13:56 -0000 On 2 Nov 2006, at 19:02, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 05:40:14PM +0000, Angie Ahl wrote: > >> They're bundling DirectAdmin with the servers and it doesn't run in >> 64 bit mode so they've set the machines up in 32 bit mode. From day 1 >> it's been crashing. First it was some dodgy ram, after that was >> sorted we still had crashes so they changed the mother board. They've >> tried Asus and and Asrock and for a while today it looked OK. >> >> Then suddenly I was getting complaints when trying to install >> ports. eg: >> >> checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp >> configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check > > If /lib/cpp exists then it doesn't come from FreeBSD :-) that threw me for a while... it doesn't exist. that seems to be a linux thing. it's actually in /usr/bin/cpp (I think, can't check, dead box ;) but restarting let it compile fine so I guess it looked in the right place after the restart. Don't ask me to explain that I really couldn't. I wonder if they changed the motherboard and accidentally put the bad ram back in because that's was what was happening with the bad ram ;) Angie