buildworld failures on STABLE

[Roland Smith]

On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:01:16AM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> On a remote machine currently with RELENG-6 from 20th. June, with STABLE 
> sources from this morning I get build failures in contrib/ similar to:
<snip>
> /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../../../../contrib/gcc/lcm.c:801: internal 
> compiler error: Segmentation fault: 11
<snip>
> Would this indicate a hardware (memory) problem? 

Yes. The compiler dying with signal 11 is a typical memory problem.

> Any way to test remotely?

There are memory test applications like memtest86+ (http://www.memtest.org/).
You have to boot from it, but it does support a console on a serial port.

Roland
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