FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE as cvsupdated today won't build, OS crashes

[O. Hartmann]

Sorry, my build world froze this minute, I have no contact to the 
machine and the scientist, which helped remotely, ist at home, should
go for tomorrow ... :-(

Robert Watson wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, O. Hartmann wrote:
> 
> 
>>>>Also, the system is really instable after I build the kernel for itself.
>>>>Under heavy load, the machine get stuck and freezes. 
>>>>
>>>>I have no more informations due to remote control of the system. 
>>>
>>>Do you have approximate before/after dates for when the instability began?
>>>In particular, was it with an update in the last 48 or 96 hours?
>>
>>Friday last week I did the last update. Then the machine was shut-down. 
>>Today morning we started again, and since then (I built a kernel after
>>an 11 am cvsupdate and build kernel), the machine is freezing after I
>>tried to build world.  Maybe this is due to kernel and userland are out
>>of sync? I try building a world now again, hope this clears up things
>>... 
> 
> 
> Ideally, world and kernel being out of sync shouldn't cause instability of
> this sort.  Typically, it might result in tools such as ps, top, or maybe
> ipfw not working as desired, but not hangs.  If you could confirm the last
> date you had a kernel that didn't have instability problems, we can try
> and track down what change it is between then and now that caused the
> problem to arise. 
> 
> Robert N M Watson
>