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On 5/13/07, Peter Davoust <worldgnat@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Ok, I just conquered my gdm issues in a previous thread, and now I'm finding |
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> that gentoo is crashing on me! Twice so far, gentoo has crashed at fairly |
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> inappropriate times. I've used gentoo before, and not once has it crashed |
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> meaninglessly. First, I think I was listing a directory, and it totally |
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> froze, and then the second time I was unzipping a bzipped archive of the |
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> latest kernel sources and it came to a dead halt. I had to hard reboot the |
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> machine, it wasn't fun. I'm starting to get worried, especially since if it |
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> can't handle a little tar.bz2 file, then it certainly can't emerge anything. |
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> I'm sure you'll be wanting some logs, and I'll get them to you next time I |
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> boot gentoo. I've got 2 gig of RAM, and a dual core processor, so those |
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> aren't the problem, and my hard drive has plenty of free space (talking gigs |
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> here), so that's not it either. It sounds like it's something really obvious |
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> that I'm overlooking, but I don't understand how it could just stop. Even |
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> the normal clicking associated with the processor "thinking" just halts. |
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> Isn't that weird? |
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Did this just start when you loaded Gentoo? For the sake of |
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troubleshooting I'd start with taking Gentoo out of the loop and |
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verifying your hardware is not the problem. Memtest86, cpuburn, and |
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bonnie++ from a live cd should give you a decent sanity test. From |
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there look at your kernel then compiler flags. You also may want to |
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consider heat as well since the weather in most places is starting to |
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warm up this time of year. |
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Wil |
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