FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE source update fails during compilation

[Josh Paetzel]

Jason Vance wrote:
> I'm unable to buildworld on a brand new installation of freebsd 6.1.  Almost 
> everytime my build fails on the genattrtab.c section of cc_tools.  I've tried 
> multiple harddrives, and downloaded the source code many times.  A couple of 
> times the system has rebooted itself, once during cvsup of the source code, and 
> again during a build.
> 
> What else should I be looking for to diagnose this problem?
> 
> My System:
> 
> FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE
> 733MHZ Intel P3
> Asus pv3-4x latest bios 1006.004
> Sound Blaster Live
> Voodoo 3 16mb GFX Card
> HDDs:  I've tried 3 different drives, the first few tries were with 2 drives 
> gmirror'd and then without the gmirror ( RAID 1 )
> 
> Memtest checks out ok ( Ran 5 hours 150 loops )
> 
> Here is the last few lines of everytime I've tried to compile the source.
> 

Failures likes these are almost always hardware related.  If it was a 
software problem it would die at the same place every time.  You 
could be suffering from overheating, bad ram (regardless of what 
memtest tells you) power fluctuations due to a faulty PSU, or any 
other number of esoteric problems.  FreeBSD has this knack of not 
playing nicely with partially broken hardware. :)

Thanks, 

Josh Paetzel