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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!cujo!marsh!cproto From: cproto@marsh.cs.curtin.edu.au (Computer Protocol) Subject: Re: compiling kernel hangs machine Message-ID: <cproto.712233991@marsh> Sender: news@cujo.curtin.edu.au (News Manager) Organization: Curtin University of Technology References: <1992Jul26.205819.11128@Urmel.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 10:46:31 GMT kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kukulies) writes: >Could it be that the swap default space (5MB) is too small for compiling >a kernel with a 4 MB machine. I tried a first kernel build this >afternoon on a 386SX 4MB and when I came back after several hours the machine seemed to be dead - login from outside was not possible (telnet hung also). >This happened during the compilation of tty.c . >Is it possible to increase the swap space simply by swapping to a file (swapon)? >--Chris >----------------------------------------------------------------- >kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de >*** Error code 1 > >Stop. I had similar problems. Sometimes the make hangs and the only remedy is a reboot. I managed to build a kernel with ddb. Using CTRL+ALT+ESC I entered DDB. Unfortunately there is no man page or any other doc for DDB. So I still don't know why the kernel sometimes dies. 0.0 with some of the posted kernel patches seemed to be far more robust. I think about going back to 0.0. I had only one problem with 0.0: after very large makes (e.g. X11R5) the system started to trash and finally died. Actually I had another problem - dump hung the system. I'm going to try that tonight with 0.1. regards - Tibor Sashegyi (cproto@abel.cs.curtin.edu.au)