From: Joachim Schipper (j.schippermath.uu.nl)
Date: Fri Nov 17 2006 - 17:17:20 CST

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On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 04:28:16PM +0100, Marc Peters wrote:
> hi folks,
>
> since yesterday i try to build stable out of the cvs-sources from
> anoncvs.de.openbsd.org without success. it crashes every now and then
> during the userland build-process (never during the kernel-build). i
> checked the ram with memtest86 and it showed no errors. i changed the
> harddisk, but the new one shows the same odd behaviour.

> this time i did a complete checkout from this morning. it stopped with
> segfaults during some libs yesterday, and this morning i even had an
> syntax error during building of the libc.
>
> is the cpu flaky? anything else?
>
> anyone, who can point me in the right direction?

I presume some bad component - gcc is amazingly good at tickling those.
For all the scorn heaped on Gentoo here, it is quite good at testing
hardware. ;-)

Exactly what component might be in error is difficult to guess, but
memory is always a good guess. I've had at least one box do exactly what
you describe (gcc fails, memtest86 is happy).

                Joachim

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