Tell him he cannot claim it is not the hardware until he actually replaces
the ram and cpu with truely known good ones and un-overclocks if he is
oc'ing. Also try underclocking. I mention truely known good ones because
I recently went through *3* bad cpu's before finding a useable one from
our cpu stash at work.
On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, f.johan.beisser wrote:
>
>oddly enough, i told him this a few days ago, but he insisted that his
>hardware was fine..
>
>anyhow, thanks for the help you all have given me.
>
>-- jan
>
>
>On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Chuck Robey wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, f.johan.beisser wrote:
>>
>> > ok, here's the scenario. I didn't install any ports until I went to do the
>> > `make buildworld`, when I installed cvsup to get the source updates.
>> >
>> > full binary+sources install from the 14 Jan 2000 snapshot
>> > AMD K6-2 450MHz (corroborated by dmesg output)
>> > c. 8 gig Seagate IDE HD
>> > 64 megs RAM
>> > cheap motherboard with everything built in, and one PCI slot
>> >
>> > here is the final lines of output from trying to compile the GENERIC kernel
>> > (doing a `/usr/sbin/config GENERIC`):
>> > ---------------
>> > -D_KERNEL -include opt_global.h -elf -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2
>> > ../../netinet/in.c
>> > cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
>> > *** Error code 1
>> > cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
>>
>> Signal 11 is usually an artifact of bad hardware, like bad RAM. You don't
>> state what version of FreeBSD he's running, either. Did you know that, if
>> he's running a system older than about 3 months ago, he CAN'T buildworld
>> unless he installs a new kernel first?
>>
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>>
>> New Year's Resolution: I will not sphroxify gullible people into looking up
>> fictitious words in the dictionary.
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