make buildworld fails for 5-Stable cvsup'd today

[Stacey Roberts]

Hi,
   Thanks to all that responded.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sam Nilsson <sam at servingpeace.com>"
To: To freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
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
> ><stacey at vickiandstacey.com> 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
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