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Subject: Re: system crash when using 'make'
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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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