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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!sdd.hp.com!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!news.u.washington.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!plains.NoDak.edu!tjon From: tjon@plains.NoDak.edu (Christopher C. Tjon) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: PROBLEMS WITH PATCHKIT 0.2.2 - Advice/help needed :-( Message-ID: <C4BLJ8.GA5@ns1.nodak.edu> Date: 23 Mar 93 02:28:20 GMT Article-I.D.: ns1.C4BLJ8.GA5 Sender: usenet@ns1.nodak.edu (Usenet login) Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network Lines: 100 Nntp-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu I installed patchkit 0.2.2 this weekend and had the following experiences I would like to say first that this situation is an improvement over the past. first: I have a AMD 386dx/40 system with 16mb RAM, adaptec 1542B with maxtor LXT340s and Wangtek 5150es. I have a et4000 super vga card with 1mb and an IIt 387 coprocessor. As I was having many stability problems prior to this patchkit I decided to go back to a vanilla system and start over. I went all the way back to low level formatting my drive, installed bin01 and src01. after applying all the patches I ran afterinstall.sh(or whatever it was called) and all seemed well. I booted the new kernel etc an began to run the buildworld.sh script. here is where the trouble starts. I figured that it would run for a bit so I started it up and went to bed. When I got up my system was at login. I suspected that it had crashed and rebooted so I started buildworld.sh again. Sure enough it ran for a while and crashed. The first time was compiling /usr/src/lib/libg++/libg++/gcd.cc The error message was: vm_fault(fe39a600,27eff000,3,0)->1 type c, code 2 kernel: type 12 trap, code=0 stopped at 0xfe0037fc: movl $0x6f430a20, 0x2a2ffee8(%ebp) db> and the system hung. first of all what is "db>" and what can you do with it. I futily tried some commands and got nothing so I rebooted. :-( After rebooting gcd.cc compiled fine and we went on to ctype.cc and got this one: kernel: type 9 trap, code=0 stopped at 0xfe059065 imull $Qx75626922, %fs:0x74(%ebx),%esi db> Again confusion prevailed and I had to reboot. :-( I rebooted and restarted the compile this time getting to libtelnet and got the following: nm: auth.o no name list nm: encrypt.o no name list nm: kerberos.o no name list nm: enc_des.o no name list and the compile continued. This concerned me so i interrupted it and restarted it and then these errors did not appear. What is going on? From here the next trouble spot came when compiling libutil during kvm.c the error message was: kernel: type 12 trap, code=0 stopped at 0fe0519eb: addb %dl,0(%eax) db> and I had to reboot again :-( I have yet to compile the whole system. GCC is going now maybe she will make it :-) A couple of other things. I had my x stuff on a tape and decide to restore it. Again I had problems the first few attempts be eventually made it. The message was: (note: this is using tar) kernel: type 12 trap, code=0 stopped at 0xfe058005 addb 0(%ecx),%cl Also what is the difference between XCONSOLE and UCONSOLE in a config file? Why do I get a message when booting my new kernel that says DDB: no symbols? What is /dev/com00? Ocassionally pieces of my filesystem will disappear. I will cd to somedirectory only to find it saying ". not found". I can do a cd / and get out but the directory is gone. If I reboot it mysteriously returns as if it had always been there. the same thing occurs with random individual files. I will look at them and find them filled with garbage and when I reboot they are fine. This is TOO weird :-( :-(. one would think that if they were corrupted they would stay that way. Bear in mind that fsck reports no errors sometimes. A few other times. it does not make a difference whether errors are found or not. The problem is resolved. I have had a large reduction in general filesystem errors after installing the new scsi stuff in the patchkit0.2.2 but this problem remains the same. Overall i think my system is more stable now than it has ever been. At least you can read the error message rather than missing it before the system reboots as before. Do I just need to suffer through the rest of the compile before things will stablize or what? I would really like to get it figured out so that I can get a return on all the time I have put into it. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Keep in mind that I was having mysterious reboots and filesystem problems prior to 0.2.2. I find it difficult to believe that there is anything wrong with my equipment. It is all brand new and check out on every diagnostic I can find to run on it. Other os's such as linux and sco 3.2.4 have had no troubles on it at all. Again any help will be greatly appreciated. Feel free to email. I can post a summary of responses or you can post directly to the group. either way thanks in advance -- Chris tjon@plains.nodak.edu Christopher C. Tjon uunet!plains!tjon (UUCP) Box 5224 tjon@plains (Bitnet) Fargo, ND 58105-5224 This message brought to you by the letters X and S and the number 3.