Segfaults from gcc, awk and Zend; advice needed

[Alban]

On Mar 13, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote:

> Alban wrote:
>> For some reason I'm getting more or less random segfaults compiling
>> kernels, world or PHP5 on BETA-3 (Python and perl went ok). So far I
>> haven't succeeded building a fresh kernel or world. This system is an
>> Athlon XP with 1MB RAM and 4GB swap, compiling is done in the usual
>> places in /usr, which is a set of two gstriped partitions. Dmesg  
>> attached.
>
> If the crashes aren't repeatable (ie, the compiler segfaults in  
> different places
> if you re-do the make), that's an almost sure sign of hardware  
> problems like
> overheating.

Looks like you were right.

After setting hw.acpi.cx_lowest to C2 I was able to finally compile a  
custom kernel. After vacuuming my CPU fan and putting the ventilator  
in a better position the buildworld succeeded at the 1st pass.

Thanks for putting me on the right track.

--
Alban Hertroys

		"If you can't see the forest through the trees,
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