Re: port-i386/38147: Segfault building bootstrap in pkgsrc-2007Q4 on i386

[GNUton <gnuton%blackmesa.it@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-i386/38147; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: GNUton <gnuton%blackmesa.it@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-i386/38147: Segfault building bootstrap in pkgsrc-2007Q4
 on i386
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2008 15:42:37 +0100

 Matthias Scheler wrote:
 >  99% of segmentation faults in the C compiler on i386 hardware reported to
 >  the NetBSD project are caused by hardware problems, mostly bad memory.
 >  
 This is the first thing that I tought, in fact:
 >  1.) Can you please rerun the bootstrap and check whether it crashes at
 >      a different file?
 I rerun the ./bootstrap building for 5 times before opening the bug ticket.
 >  2.) Could you please try running a memory test program on your system?
 I've runned memtest86+ for 1 hour to test the goodness of 64MB memory
 (DIMM PC133).
 
 This is an old machine, I've tested hardware very much before beginning
 to work on it.
 Sometimes I got a crash of ssh daemon, it induces my GENERIC kernel to
 switch in db> mode. I hope this information could help.
 
 Simone
 
 PS:
 Sorry for my poor english...
 
 
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