Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!jvnca!njitsc1!argus!ron From: ron@argus.UUCP (Ron DeBlock) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: Bizzare, non repeatable, 4.3 C compiler behavior Message-ID: <962@argus.UUCP> Date: Sat, 18-Jul-87 22:42:32 EDT Article-I.D.: argus.962 Posted: Sat Jul 18 22:42:32 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 19-Jul-87 08:37:50 EDT References: <328@rocksanne.UUCP> Organization: NJ Instit of Tech, Newark NJ Lines: 30 In article <328@rocksanne.UUCP>, mayer@rocksanne.UUCP (Jim Mayer) writes: > I have been having the following, rather bizzare, problem with the 4.3bsd > C compiler. I get non repeatable compiler errors! By non repeatable I > mean that if I reissue the same command, I will get a different error > or a successful compile. The errors are usually of the form: > > compiler error in lib/ccom > or > compiler error: couldn't find basic type 14 (or 4, or 10) for FOO > > > Has anybody else had this problem? Do poltergeists really exist? Yes, on a 3B15 running sVr2.1.1. We usually get complaints from the assembler, and recompiling works just fine. I believe we have a bad block somewhere on the disk which occasionally is used in a temp file. I have been unable to verify that, as fsck reports no problems. There is another symptom possibly caused by the same problem: "leaky" pipes. By leaky, I mean typing something like: who | sort and getting someones C source code for output or nothing at all. This is also intermittant. > > -- Jim -- Ron DeBlock KA2IKT uucp: ...!siesmo!rugters!galaxy!andromeda!argus!ron