FreeBSD 6.1 problems on AMD64 Athlon 3800 - crashes from day 1

[Angie Ahl]

On 2 Nov 2006, at 19:02, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 05:40:14PM +0000, Angie Ahl wrote:
>
>> They're bundling DirectAdmin with the servers and it doesn't run in
>> 64 bit mode so they've set the machines up in 32 bit mode. From day 1
>> it's been crashing. First it was some dodgy ram, after that was
>> sorted we still had crashes so they changed the mother board. They've
>> tried Asus and and Asrock and for a while today it looked OK.
>>
>> Then suddenly I was getting complaints when trying to install  
>> ports. eg:
>>
>> checking how to run the C++ preprocessor... /lib/cpp
>> configure: error: C++ preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
>
> If /lib/cpp exists then it doesn't come from FreeBSD :-)

that threw me for a while... it doesn't exist. that seems to be a  
linux thing. it's actually in /usr/bin/cpp (I think, can't check,  
dead box ;)

but restarting let it compile fine so I guess it looked in the right  
place after the restart. Don't ask me to explain that I really  
couldn't. I wonder if they changed the motherboard and accidentally  
put the bad ram back in because that's was what was happening with  
the bad ram ;)

Angie