Re: 5.3 STABLE kernel compilation oddity

2005-02-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 10:00:54PM +, Alex Burke wrote: > Hi, > > I have some further information that might be of some use, and also > points me to a cause of this bug. This indeed looks like the bug which is fixed by the patch in the erratum you mentioned. Kris pgpFDsvAD8Le6.pgp Descript

Re: 5.3 STABLE kernel compilation oddity

2005-02-01 Thread Robert Watson
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Martin Nilsson wrote: > I've seen something similar to this on 5.3 and 5.3-STABLE buildworld it > happens on fast machines (both SMP & UP) when running 'make -j n > buildworld' with n larger than about 8. It does not happen everytime, > just often enough to make you wonder if

Re: 5.3 STABLE kernel compilation oddity

2005-02-01 Thread Martin Nilsson
Robert Watson wrote: I've recently seen an odd nit involving -j kernel compiles, in which occasionally the build breaks because of a parse problem and vnode_if.awk. I've been meaning to sit down and see if I can reproduce it, I suspect a dependency problem. -j should always work for the kernel, b

Re: 5.3 STABLE kernel compilation oddity

2005-02-01 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 07:16:48PM +0100, Juergen Dankoweit wrote: > > > In a german documenation I have read that the "-j"-switch should not be > > used because I makes trouble especially on SMP-systems. > > This is incorrect. I've recently seen an

Re: 5.3 STABLE kernel compilation oddity

2005-01-31 Thread Alex Burke
Hi, I have some further information that might be of some use, and also points me to a cause of this bug. I saw the following information on the system console when I looked at the screen before rebooting th machine: Cannot dump. No dump device defined. Automatic reboot in 15s - press any key to

Re: 5.3 STABLE kernel compilation oddity

2005-01-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 09:53:12AM -0600, Billy Newsom wrote: > I have a similar system to yours, but a dual processor. One thing I see is > that as the days have gone by since the original 5.3-Release, the SMP code > has had some code changes that have alternately caused crashes or > compile-

Re: 5.3 STABLE kernel compilation oddity

2005-01-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 07:16:48PM +0100, Juergen Dankoweit wrote: > In a german documenation I have read that the "-j"-switch should not be > used because I makes trouble especially on SMP-systems. This is incorrect. Kris pgp1E7A9hT37x.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 5.3 STABLE kernel compilation oddity

2005-01-31 Thread Juergen Dankoweit
Hello, Am Montag, den 31.01.2005, 09:53 -0600 schrieb Billy Newsom: > Alex Burke wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I wasnt quite sure what to call this problem. > > > > I am running FreeBSD 5.3 STABLE on a quad Pentium Pro IBM Netfinity > > 7000 system, and since the GENERIC kernel does not come SMP ena

Re: 5.3 STABLE kernel compilation oddity

2005-01-31 Thread Billy Newsom
Alex Burke wrote: Hi, I wasnt quite sure what to call this problem. I am running FreeBSD 5.3 STABLE on a quad Pentium Pro IBM Netfinity 7000 system, and since the GENERIC kernel does not come SMP enabled I compiled a kernel with SMP support and drivers for networks card and SCSI RAID adapter built

5.3 STABLE kernel compilation oddity

2005-01-31 Thread Alex Burke
Hi, I wasnt quite sure what to call this problem. I am running FreeBSD 5.3 STABLE on a quad Pentium Pro IBM Netfinity 7000 system, and since the GENERIC kernel does not come SMP enabled I compiled a kernel with SMP support and drivers for networks card and SCSI RAID adapter built into it (not loa