Kevin Oberman wrote: >>But most importantly, perhaps, when I do: >> >>portupgrade -Rra >> >>it almost never completes, because I get coredumps in cc (and >>occasionally weirder symptoms, like illegal instructions). I know this >>is usually attributed to RAM, but I've tried swapping that out - so, >>what else can I fiddle with that might affect this (and the other >>problems)? More info available on demand, of course. > > > This is disturbing as I have been seeing similar problems on my T30 for > a week. Attempting to buildworld bombs after 3 or 4 minutes in various > places. memtest86 found no memory problems. I have not run any CPU > diagnostics, but was assuming a hardware problem. (I still am). Interesting. I haven't tried memtest86 (where does that come from?), but PC-DOCTOR, which IBM supply, says all is well. > Unlike my previous experience with this sort of thing, it seems to > happen about the same whether the system is hot or cold. Mine always dies part way through trying to rebuild the X server. Whcih, I guess, is somewhat regular. > Has any A or T series ThinkPad owner built a new CURRENT system over the > past week? Note that mine is RELENG, not CURRENT. I'm happy to migrate if its thought useful. Cheers, Ben. -- http://www.apache-ssl.org/ben.html http://www.thebunker.net/ "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." - Robert WoodruffReceived on Mon Apr 21 2003 - 08:06:08 UTC
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