sounds like a purely hardware issue ... my first thought would be are the
hard drive(s) lights on solid?
On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Kevin Worcester wrote:
> I attempted to compile Postgres 7.0.2 on a computer
> with OpenBSD 2.7 (Pentium 233 MHz, 32MB RAM).
>
> The compile failed twice, both times on preproc.c, and
> both times the computer completely locked up and
> required a hard reset. No errors, no hard disk
> thrashing, just a dead OpenBSD box. I'm curious if anyone
> else has had a similar experience, or has a possible
> fix.
>
> I will only be using Postgres from perl (DBI) and
> the command line utilities. Will I need the
> src/interfaces/ecpg branch of the source?
>
> I'm hesitant to attempt another compile of any version
> because this isn't my computer and I've already
> crashed it twice.
>
> Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> - Kevin Worcester
> kworces@surveyor.com
> kworces@earthlink.net
>
> --
> Kevin Worcester
> Software Engineer
> Surveyor Corporation
>
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