Perry E. Metzger wrote:

>"S. N. Cho" <sucho2@vt.edu> writes:
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>>Not sure if it is completely heat related
>>(although I cannot rule that out completely!) for it builds all the
>>gnu stuff, usr.bin, usr.sbin.... almost everything.
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>Your address is "vt.edu" -- is it possible for you to try running the
>machine for the compile outside your window or in some similar cold
>environment to rule out the heat issue?
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>>The freeze happens whenever the
>>kernel runs "clean" command.  I had similar problem when I tried
>>simultaneously running 3 different "make CLEANDEPENDS=yes clean" while
>>building packages from pkgsrc under 3 different terminals under X.
>>When the building current froze, it was running "rm -rf ... cleandir
>>etc....." and this was about when building release was 99%
>> finished!  It happened while building boot floppies.
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>Er, usually "clean" isn't being run at that stage of the game. In any
>case, problems when removing large numbers of files might be related
>to softdeps -- do you have softdeps on, and if so, how much memory
>does your machine have?
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>>For now, I will retire myself from any building of NetBSD-current and
>>just wait for 1.6.1 release.
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>1.6.1 is not --current -- current will become 2.0. 1.6.1 is the next
>release from the 1.6 branch.
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Hello,

Thanks for the help and inputs.  That heating issue, I had a hunch on 
it, so this morning, when I ran the building of current, I left my 
window open and removed myself to different room for my computer room 
was freezing almost!  It's quite cold in Blacksburg, VA :)  Looks like I 
will be getting new 2.4G pentium 4's in my office sometime next week.  I 
will ask for a permission to deinstall Windows XP and install NetBSD 
from the department administrator and will try building it from that 
machine.  If it builds fine on that machine, it might as well be the 
heating issue.  Regarding the 1.6.1.... you mean I have to wait till 2.0 
to have hands on all the good things going into current?  Oh, darn! 
 Well, life is full of compromise.  Maybe I need a new laptop :)  Thank you.


Yours sincerely,
S. N. Cho,
Monday, Jan. 27, 2003.