From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 28 06:58:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA29472 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 06:58:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from militzer.me.tuns.ca (militzer.me.tuns.ca [134.190.50.153]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA29467 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 06:57:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (bemfica@localhost) by militzer.me.tuns.ca (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id KAA09556 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 1997 10:57:29 -0400 (AST) Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 10:57:28 -0400 (AST) From: Antonio Bemfica To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 2.2 hangs in "make lib-tools" Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I was having trouble with a machine (Pentium Pro 200, 32 M RAM, 2.5Gig IDE) that would suddenly hang, requiring me to flick the on/off switch to recover. I decided to "downgrade" it from -current to see if it would improve, and had a "fun" time doing it. Never managed a clean "make world". I had to step through the different targets in make and skip the "make lib-tools" where it invariably hangs (/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc or thereabouts). I figure I'm half there, I managed to get a 2.2 kernel going ok, and the machine is holding. Are there any diagnostics tools I should be running to track what's wrong? It could, of course, be a hardware problem, but I want to hear from some experts before I give up and start from scratch. Any help or guidance is appreciated. Antonio -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ "I myself have always disliked being called a 'genius'. It is fascinating to notice how quick people have been to intuit this aversion and avoid using the term" -- John Lanchester, in "The Debt to Pleasure"