Re: 6.1 current instabilty on Sun Ultra 40's

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 02:44:28PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:01:07 -0400
stan <stanb@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On that disk is a world, built from last weekends cvsup. I was able
to reproduce it's instability to build a generic kernel. It fails with
a signal (I believe) 11,

fair enough :)

btw, from past experience, sig_fault 11 usually points to faulty hardware
(usually RAM...) - haven't found them much on BSD, but i'd get them all the
time when using lesser hardware on linux (building kernel was a standard way to
test the hardware back then).... but since you've ruled out hardware... i dont
know what else :)

I agree, that's one of the reasons it took me so long to decide to shut the
production machine down to verify whether it _was_ hardware or not. I was
extermely disapointed when I was able to reproduce the problem on known
good hardware, as the unit i'm trying to put FreeBSD on is still under
waranty.

I don't really know how to go about creating a reproducable enough problem
that is simple enough to submit a bug report, so I supose my only option is
to find another use for this machine. too bad, beacuse I can easily buy
yese machines, which isn't always the case in a corporate environment.

--
Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity.
(Dennis Ritchie)
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