Vallo Kallaste wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 11:43:01AM -0500, "Paul A. Howes"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am receiving some strange errors during a buildworld of 5.0-RELEASE-p2
> > from 5.0-RELEASE-p1.  The location of where the failure varies, but the
> > program that causes the failure is the same every time:  "as".
> >
> > The errors are a variety of signal 10 and signal 4.  I do find an
> > "as.core" file under /usr/obj, but as is stripped, so there are no
> > debugging symbols or listing that I can provide.
> >
> > The strange thing is that I have been able to successfully build
> > XFree86, KDE, and many other ports on this system.  I followed the
> > 4.x-to-5.0 upgrade directions to the letter about a month ago, and have
> > had no major problems before this.
> >
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated!
> 
> As John Hay suggested, add DISABLE_PSE and DISABLE_PG_G to your
> kernel configuration and rebuild/install kernel. I was having
> _exactly_ same behaviour; at the beginning of test runs to narrow
> the problem a bit I did _large_ ports builds, which ran for 1,5
> days.. flawlessly, as you had seen. Then changed test method to
> parallel (make -j4) buildworld and the problem occasionally appeared
> from nowhere again. The flags mentioned before will work, as I
> haven't had any problems after enabling them (months of time now).

I thought this was the default in 5.x GENERIC; has someone turned
these options off in the default config?!?

I certainly haven't seen changes to locore.s, pmap.c, and machdep.c
that would fix the problem by working around the CPU bug.

-- Terry

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