> :The /etc/fstab which enables the crash is the following. To fix it
> :comment out the second swap. Note they are on separate drives.
> :...
> :I should also mention that I am running softupdates.
> :
> :>Description:
> :
> :If both swap partitions are enabled then "make -k buildworld" crashes
> :the system with ABSOLUTE CONSISTENCY.
> If the system is crashing there should be a panic message. What
> panic are you getting when it crashes?
No panic messages. Just sudden flashing lights, a red drive activity
light, and a reboot with lost files (most of the time ... sometimes it
just hangs).
> You may want to add the DDB kernel config option to your kernel
> config, recompile, and reinstall, which should knock the system
> into the DDB debugger when it crashes and enable you to see what
> the panic message was and do a 'trace'.
Ok, I'll try that this weekend.
> :Since this behavior has been around for about a year (???) I assume my
> :system configuration must be unusual ... or surely this would have been
> :discovered and fixed earlier.
> :Several months ago a bug was found with dual swap partitions. It
> :involved some cross-partition alignment problem. When that bug was
> :fixed most of my crashes disappeared. Except for this problem.
> :But "make -k buildworld" continued to crash the system.
Thanks.
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