Re: Armv7 linker failure on -current

On Jun 17, 2023, at 11:42, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 08:34:16AM -0700, Mark Millard wrote:
>> On Jun 17, 2023, at 07:34, bob prohaska <fbsd@www.zefox.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> A Pi2 running -current stops in buildworld with
>> 
>> I assume self building an update to main [so: 14].
>> 
> 
> Correct.
> 
>> What commit last built successfully? (This bounds what would be different
>> in official materials.)
>> 
> 
> I haven't kept any manual records, but uname -a reports
> FreeBSD www.zefox.com 14.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #39 main-9f135336f5: Fri Jun 16 02:18:02 PDT 2023     bob@www.zefox.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/arm.armv7/sys/GENERIC arm
> 
> Since my original post git pull found a few updates and I restarted buildworld

I expect that this means there is no evidence left to look at
what was originally reported.

> It has failed also, but with what looks like an unrelated error. These problems
> emerged after a silent hang using -j3, followed by power-cycling and reboot. -j3
> was backed down to -j2 and buildworld restarted, with the mischief reported here
> ensuing.

I see. Messy.

> I'm starting to wonder if there's some undetected corruption in either /usr/src
> or /usr/obj. Perhaps I'd best run make cleandir twice and start over. That will
> likely take at least  few days. This is a mechanical hard disk setup, with 1 GB
> swap. Boot is via microSD using only bootcode.bin, with the usual msdos partition
> on the hard disk.  
> 
> Is there a more expedient approach under the circumstances? 

If I understand right, there is no evidence to examine from
the original report's context to guide any investigation. It
seems you need to establish a known context (broken or
working) to possibly investigate.

===
Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com