Hi, Thanks to all that responded. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sam Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>" To: To [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 04 Dec, 2004 21:42 GMT Subject: Re: make buildworld fails for 5-Stable cvsup'd today
> Godwin Stewart wrote: > >On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 20:23:22 +0000, Stacey Roberts > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>internal compiler error: Segmentation fault > > > > > >Faulty RAM, maybe? > > > >A machine throwing a segfault is fairly characteristic of a CPU overheating > >and/or of a faulty RAM stick. The problem was indeed dodgy RAM! I swapped the RAM out for other modules, and buildworld (and the complete upgrade to Stable, as a matter of fact) completed successfully. Strange though.., the machine I've been working on was originally running Fedora Core-3 quite happily - even recompiled a new kernel before trashing it for FreeBSD.., Go figure.., Thanks again to everyone - onwards! Regards, Stacey > > > > I'll chime in here (again!) and mention that I was having the same > problem yesterday trying to make buildworld (5.3 Release). > > It turned out that one of my RAM modules was bad and the bios must not > have fully mapped out all of the bad parts. After removing the offending > memory module (through trial and error), freebsd is as stable as ever > and my builds went flawlessly. > > So Godwin is probably right. It is probably bad RAM. > > - Sam > _______________________________________________ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
