Re: Makeworld is dying...

2000-09-19 Thread James Housley
Steve Roome wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 06:16:59PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 10:45:26AM -0400, James Housley wrote: Steve Roome wrote: So could we change the text (something like, but better worded than the following) in the FAQ, e.g. :

Re: Makeworld is dying...

2000-09-18 Thread Steve Roome
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 04:00:06PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: What you *should* do before sending out a reply like this is to check whether it's really in the FAQ or not. It is (http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/troubleshoot.html#AEN1570): There's a lot of people who are quick to step up to the

Re: Makeworld is dying...

2000-09-18 Thread James Housley
Steve Roome wrote: So could we change the text (something like, but better worded than the following) in the FAQ, e.g. : Q: My programs occasionally die with Signal 11 ( or 10 ). A: Signal 11 errors are caused when your process has attempted to access memory which the operating

Re: Makeworld is dying...

2000-09-17 Thread Roman Shterenzon
Perhaps we should add an entry to a FAQ (if it's not already there), describing the problem, and, a good indication of a bad ram or undercooled cpu would be trying buildworld couple of times (without -DNOCLEAN) and watch where it fails. If it fails in different places - then it's almost sure

Re: Makeworld is dying...

2000-09-17 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 17 September 2000 at 9:24:47 +0300, Roman Shterenzon wrote: On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Kent Stewart wrote: "Paul A. Howes" wrote: All- When I attempt a buildworld on a brand new FreeBSD system (IBM/Cyrix-166+, 64MB memory, 20GB Maxtor drive), it dies while building the ncurses

Re: Makeworld is dying...

2000-09-16 Thread Kent Stewart
"Paul A. Howes" wrote: All- When I attempt a buildworld on a brand new FreeBSD system (IBM/Cyrix-166+, 64MB memory, 20GB Maxtor drive), it dies while building the ncurses library. This happen whether it's the version of the source code on the 4.1 CD-Rom disc, or the latest and greatest