Buildworld error/panic

[farid]

On 12/13/05, Matthew Dillon <dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> :Hi guys,
> :
> :This is my first attempt to use DragonFlyBSD. I am using snapshot
> :2CSNAP-20051130-2330-Devel.iso.bz2. After cvsup'ed to latest -HEAD, I
> :tried to do buildworld but it keep failing on me. I don't have problem
> :with 'buildkernel' ( cd /usr/src/sys/i386/conf ; config MYKERNEL ; cd
> :../../compile/MYKERNEL ; make depend && make && make install ; reboot)
> :though. Here are the errors I got from buildworld. Please take a look
> :at it.
> :
> :...
> :I have tried couple of times and got almost the same errors.
> :I have uploaded kernel dump to http://www.msav.org/farid/dfbsd/
> :vmcore is on the way (my internet connection is not so good)
> :
> :Thanks,
> :Farid Kamarudin
>
>    Definitely try the latest snapshot.  The kernels around ~30 november
>    were fairly buggy.
>
>    There was a vnode scanning issue fixed on 5 December but I can't say
>    for sure that your crash is due to one of those bugs.
>
>    I downloaded the kernel and core you had at that URL, but the vmcore
>    looks incomplete.  If its supposed to be larger then 92.8M then email
>    me when you've got the whole thing uploaded and I'll download it again.
>
>                                        -Matt
>                                        Matthew Dillon
>                                        <dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>

Ok, I have tried the latest snapshot. With it, I got panic on
buildkernel, buildworld and even during the xorg compilation. All I
did is keep trying building the kernel/world with the hope I don't hit
the panic. Sometimes it takes couple of panic (occurs at different
places for each build) before it actually build without panic. For
xorg, I only tried once but it also gave me panic. After that I gave
up.

I think this has something to do with unstable hardware, (bad hard
disk for example), so I try to install FreeBSD 6.0-release but it
always failed when trying to copy the base into the hard disk (during
the installation process) but no panic. The hard disk also takes a
'very' long time to transfer big files (~500MB).

Maybe the problem is caused by the bad hard disk but not the code.
Right now I'm using Windows XP and it works 'OK' but I can hear
uncommon sound comes from the hard disk especially during heavy I/O
operation though. I think I am going to stick to Windows XP for a
while until the hard disk is totally broken or maybe I should get a
new hard disk for my dual-core xpc shuttle :-)

Thanks.

Farid Kamarudin