Date: 11 Jan 2005 08:57:47 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-stable-local@be-well.no-ip.com> To: Rick Updegrove <rick@updegrove.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3-RELEASE crashes during make buildworld (and other problems) Message-ID: <44fz18m5k4.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <41E36760.2090609@updegrove.net> References: <41E36760.2090609@updegrove.net>
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Rick Updegrove <rick@updegrove.net> writes: > This machine runs 4.11-STABLE just fine. I can make buildworld all day. > Before that it ran Win2k for many months with no problems. For these > reasons, I do not suspect hardware at this point. > > When I install 5.3-RELEASE it runs fine until... > > When I attempt to cvsup to STABLE and run make buildworld (yes with and > without the -j) it crashes. > > I am very bad at kernel debugging because FreeBSD 4 has (almost) > always been perfectly stable so I have read and re-read the handbook > and I am trying to get more information to the list. > > So far in rc.conf I added: > > dumpdev="/dev/ad0s1b" > DUMPDIR="/usr/crash" That should be "dumpdir", not "DUMPDIR". The default would be /var/crash instead of /usr/crash. Also, /dev/ad0s1b has to be bigger than your RAM size. > Then I > chmod 700 /usr/crash > > Then in /boot/loader.conf I added > > verbose_loading="YES" > boot_verbose="YES" > > Does this look reasonable? Pretty much. > What else should I do? You can try to analyze the panic messages themselves. There is some guidance for this in the FAQ. > Meanwhile, I started the make buildworld again (right where it left off) > and I am waiting for it to crash. > > You can find the dmesg and anything else I find at > http://rick.updegrove.net/FreeBSD/jan-10-2005/ > > *UPDATE* > While I was writing this the make buildworld failed and left me some > details which I put into a file named gcc-error-1 file at > http://rick.updegrove.net/FreeBSD/jan-10-2005/gcc-error-1 Hardware problems would be my first suspicion here. If you try it again, does it fail in the same place? > Then I rebooted and went into X and soon I got > http://rick.updegrove.net/FreeBSD/jan-10-2005/panic_kdeinit.txt > > There is nothing in /usr/crash/ > > I cant find any files name vmcore anywhere. > > I noticed that on the new 5.3-RELEASE SYSTEM if I do not have a > half-failed "make buildworld" I can install packages with pkg_add -r > whatever all day long and the machine (and KDE) runs fine. There shouldn't be any relationship between the two...
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