On Sun, May 30, 1999 at 05:16:10PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann was heard to say: > On Sun, May 30, 1999 at 11:19:41AM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > > (default-pager): refusing paging request because of previous errors > > ... [repeated lots of times] ... > > *** [Error 2] Computer bought the farm > > make: [Error 2] Computer bought the farm > > This is error number EIEIO and comes directly from a child's song :)
Ah. With a moo-moo here...erm.. :-) > > After make terminates the shell fails to recover and I have to do a hard > > reboot complete with lots of complaining by e2fsck. > > Yeah, when you see this there is a good chance you have hosed the system. Ouch. > > It looks like this has something to do with the pager but I can't find the > > previous errors it refers to (since the Mach console doesn't have > > backscrolling..maybe I could try piping the compile through less..) It may > > help to mention that my computer doesn't have swap space under the Hurd due > > to the fact that I can't get it to recognize my Linux swap partition. > > How much memory do you have? A lot of swaps helps alot on lengthy compiles. I have 48 megabytes..I finally sat down and worked out how to get swap turned on (it wasn't a problem with Hurd not recognizing my swap partition, but rather a problem with me not editing the boot scripts :-P ) so I have around 176 MB of effective memory. I'm pretty sure now that I'm not running out of memory... This error still happens to me after a while. In fact, after enabling swap I did a dpkg-buildpackage on Guile to see what happened. It didn't even get as far as it had previously before spontaneously rebooting. I tried finishing the build by hand, and in debian/rules binary got messages along the lines of: "wait: Computer bought the farm Mach: essential server proc died. Crashing computer. ...." Unfortunately that's about all I could catch before Mach rebooted my computer. Anything else I can try or should I assume my installation is totally hosed and restart? Daniel -- A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
