I've run into what's probably an Apple bug (not sure if hardware or software) that fink consistently hits; I'm reporting it here so that anyone else who hits it can find it on Google, as an example of a mostly successful troubleshooting involving (but not caused by) fink, and to give any low-level Mac geeks who are watching a chance to speculate on what's going on before I call Apple. (In short: this is not a fink bug, and help is welcome but not expected.)
fink install gcc44 gcc44-shlibs ... wait ~20 minutes ... "libtool: link: ar rc .libs/libstdc++.a"... and the machine dies. Can still drag windows around, and the clock still updates, but nothing else; "Device not configured" errors on any terminal when trying to run any command that access disk, or when ssh-ing in. Can't even tell it to shut down. This is 100% repeatable, in at least 5 trials (probably another 1 or 2 crashes were due to this, but we weren't watching carefully). The last two times I even used smcFanControl to crank up all the fans to max speed. It sounds like a jet engine, stays at a reasonable temperature (every sensor between 30 and 50 degrees C) and still crashes at exactly the same place. Running the builtin hardware test immediately after such a crash shows no errors -- basic or extended. The machine is a "MacPro3,1" 2x 2.8 GHz quad-core Xeon. It was running with 4 GB of Apple RAM (one chip replaced because we caught errors with it) plus 16 GB of iRam, in the matched configuration Apple recommends. For the last trial, I took out all the aftermarket RAM, and unloaded the VMWare kernel modules (http://iamthekiller.net/2008/11/vmware-and-kernel-extentions/). Still the exact same crash. It's not overheating or bad RAM; the machine does heavy numeric computation normally without a problem (mostly, but the other glitch we've seen is very rare and elusive). I doubt it's the disk (before one trial I did rm -rf /sw/src/fink.build/*..., and fsck -fy is totally clean). And when I ran "make" in the partially-built object directory, it did a bunch of stuff (including compiling a bunch of Java) and finished successfully. (Anyone have a theory, or something else to test?) Thanks for thinking about this, and thanks for all the hard work on fink! -Ken PS - I can duplicate this near 100% on demand, even with fans on jet-engine, by: cd /sw/src/fink.build/gcc44-4.4.0-1000/darwin_objdir/i686-apple-darwin9/libstdc++-v3/ make clean make -j16 Once I had to do that twice. CPU temperature spiked 5 or 10 degrees, but still sub-40C. The last few lines printed on the terminal were the exact same as always: ranlib: file: .libs/libstdc++.a(atexit_arm.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: .libs/libstdc++.a(eh_arm.o) has no symbols ranlib: file: .libs/libstdc++.a(tinfo2.o) has no symbols ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge This is your chance to win up to $100,000 in prizes! For a limited time, vendors submitting new applications to BlackBerry App World(TM) will have the opportunity to enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge. See full prize details at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/Challenge _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
