tmpfs: strange behaviour (was: broken buildkernel (scsi_low and -Os) and duplicate manpages)

2008-02-16 Thread David Naylor
On 14/02/2008, Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Naylor wrote: It is a strange problem, normal installworld works fine, but somehow the duplicate manpages result in a failure when installing with DESTDIR=, here are some possible reasons: 1) I use tmpfs when using DESTDIR

Re: broken buildkernel (scsi_low and -Os) and duplicate manpages

2008-02-15 Thread David Naylor
On 14/02/2008, Oliver Fromme [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Naylor wrote: It is a strange problem, normal installworld works fine, but somehow the duplicate manpages result in a failure when installing with DESTDIR=, here are some possible reasons: 1) I use tmpfs when using

Re: broken buildkernel (scsi_low and -Os) and duplicate manpages

2008-02-14 Thread David Naylor
On 13/02/2008, Rong-En Fan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 10:52:50AM +0100, Christian Brueffer wrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:15:29AM +0200, David Naylor wrote: Hi, When doing an installworld DEST=? it fails twice when trying to install duplicate man pages

broken buildkernel (scsi_low and -Os) and duplicate manpages

2008-02-13 Thread David Naylor
Hi, Building the kernel with CFLAGS=-Os breaks when compiling module scsi_low. Sorry no output available. Placing CFLAGS+= -O in the Makefile fixes the problem. Last build with -O2 did work (for everything, world, kernel and ports). From my research it appears the -Os produces code faster

Make installworld DESTDIR=? fails

2007-12-02 Thread David Naylor
Hi, With a recent (this weekend) cvsup of FreeBSD7 I have tried to do a: # make installworld DESTDIR=/tmp/build however it fails as follows: === lib/ncurses (install) === lib/ncurses/ncurses (install) [Lots of lines removes] /tmp/build/usr/share/man/man3/tigetstr.3.gz -

Re: Harddisk failure causes system crash, please help

2007-11-10 Thread David Naylor
On 09/11/2007, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, so it's probably that area of the disk which has some problem... It may but I can confirm that FreeBSD is not handling it properly (see below) There's a free utility called HDTune which has a sector scanner which explicitly looks

Harddisk failure causes system crash, please help

2007-11-08 Thread David Naylor
Hi, I have been using this laptop for a few months now with FreeBSD without any problems with the hard disk however today as I installed editors/vim the system crashed (without a core dump or any message). When ever the system boots (and proceeds to do a fsck on ad0e (/usr)) it also crashes

Re: Harddisk failure causes system crash, please help

2007-11-08 Thread David Naylor
On 08/11/2007, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like something mechanical inside of the disk is failing, or possibly the drive firmware is somewhat buggy when it comes to handling bad blocks. What brand/model of hard disk is this? atacontrol output would suffice. I'm just