Re: FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE as cvsupdated today won't build, OS crashes

From: O. Hartmann (ohartman_at_uni-mainz.de)
Date: 02/28/05

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    Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 18:53:58 +0100
To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>

    Sorry, my build world froze this minute, I have no contact to the
    machine and the scientist, which helped remotely, ist at home, should
    go for tomorrow ... :-(

    Robert Watson wrote:
    > On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, O. Hartmann wrote:
    >
    >
    >>>>Also, the system is really instable after I build the kernel for itself.
    >>>>Under heavy load, the machine get stuck and freezes.
    >>>>
    >>>>I have no more informations due to remote control of the system.
    >>>
    >>>Do you have approximate before/after dates for when the instability began?
    >>>In particular, was it with an update in the last 48 or 96 hours?
    >>
    >>Friday last week I did the last update. Then the machine was shut-down.
    >>Today morning we started again, and since then (I built a kernel after
    >>an 11 am cvsupdate and build kernel), the machine is freezing after I
    >>tried to build world. Maybe this is due to kernel and userland are out
    >>of sync? I try building a world now again, hope this clears up things
    >>...
    >
    >
    > Ideally, world and kernel being out of sync shouldn't cause instability of
    > this sort. Typically, it might result in tools such as ps, top, or maybe
    > ipfw not working as desired, but not hangs. If you could confirm the last
    > date you had a kernel that didn't have instability problems, we can try
    > and track down what change it is between then and now that caused the
    > problem to arise.
    >
    > Robert N M Watson
    >

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