RELENG_6_3 build fail -- signal 13 consistently

[Brian A. Seklecki]

On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 14:33 -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 09:17 -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
> > This is 6.3/amd64 release as a guest inside a vmware server (free)
> host:
> > 
> 
> It happens randomly.  First time I've seen it.  amd64 and i386 under
> vmware 1.x "server" (Free Version).  
> 
> I guess I'll use physical hardware for build farms.
> 

This could have been two things:

1) The VM was originally "FreeBSD 32bit" -- so it emulated lnc(4), it
was then switched to "FreBSD64" -- em(4), then back to 32 -- who knows
-- it's commercial software.

2) The VM had a non exponent/power of 2 sized RAM allocation (it was set
to 216mb -- probably a GUI blooper) -- although this generally hasn't
been a problem for 10 years since video cards started arbitrarily
stealing physical DRAM for their frame-buffer.

lnc(4) problem originates from this error:

   kernel: lnc0: Missed packet -- no receive buffer 

~BAS




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