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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!math.ohio-state.edu!caen!scottl From: scottl@engin.umich.edu (scott allen long) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: buildworld.sh hangs GENERICISA Date: 28 Jul 1993 04:03:49 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor Lines: 61 Distribution: world Message-ID: <234tr5INNpfi@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> References: <1993Jul27.193247.29088@alw.nih.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: statler.engin.umich.edu In article <1993Jul27.193247.29088@alw.nih.gov> crtb@helix.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon) writes: >Hardware: 486DX-33, 8MB, 2 240-MB IDE drives, each with DOS and 386bsd >partitions, 2 serial, parallel. Taiwanese IDE, floppy, serial, parallel >controller (one big ASIC). Taiwanese VGA. Motherboard is Compudyne >(from CompUSA). AMI BIOS. > >Software: from original BIN01, SRC01 and ETC01 distributions, patches >1 through 174 (or whatever number the 2.4 patchkit goes to), and 90000 >and 90001. > >Experience: Original (patched) dist.fs worked well; so did GENERICISA. >Took me several tries of going all the way back to the thirty-some >floppies and running patches with IALL, before I got all the way >through the patch process. I kept running out of disk. Eventually I >retarred all of /usr/othersrc/public/* over to >/mnt/overflow/othersrc/public/* and created symlinks; this made the >patch process happy. I have a few MB left on each disk. > >I configged a new kernel, based on GENERICISA but omitting the SCSI >support. Not much else. The resulting kernel seems to be OK, but >every 36 seconds, the message "status: 0" appears on the console, >relentlessly. > >I find with the new kernel, also with GENERICISA, that after a >shutdown, ctrl-alt-DEL doesn't work! I have to hit reset. > >Finally, running buildworld.sh, it hangs (either kernel running) on a >line which says "nroff -mandoc /usr/src/(I forget)/intro.2 > intro.0" >After just about 2.5 hours. (3 tries with same result). > >Question 1: Has anyone seen this "status: 0" message every 36 seconds, > and can it be fixed? > >Question 2: Has anyone seen ctrl-alt-DEL fail to reboot after shutdown? > >Question 3: Has anyone seen buildworld.sh fail, at about the point > I've indicated? > >Really, I had hoped to get past these barriers, so I could get into >drivers; I want to try the QIC80 stuff, but first I want to succeed at >the bare vanilla level. > >I understand I may have skipped some essential part of TFM, running >either patches or buildworld.sh. I'd appreciate constructive flames! >Bless the net! (in advance, of course). > > Chuck Bacon - crtb@helix.nih.gov - no, this is the system at work >O civili, si ergo, fortibus es in ero. >O novili, demis trux; indem arsem causen dux. >-- > Chuck Bacon - crtb@helix.nih.gov ( alas, not my 3b1 )-: > ABHOR SECRECY - DEFEND PRIVACY I'm seeing the same problem #3 as you are. Sometimes my system will hang while compiling the libc.a library, othertimes it will die while nroff'ing the man pages for libc. My set-up is essentially the same; 386DX-40+387, 8 megs ram, 20 megs swap, root mounted on wd0a, usr mounted on wd1a, and a GENERICISA kernel without the scsi support. I suspect that it is running out of memory, but with a 20meg swap?????? It is driving me crazy! I'd appreciate ANY help!