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Hmm.... this sounds a lot like my problem... I have managed to get my |
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box up, but I still get the hangs as mentioned in my post outside of the |
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live cd kernel. I am running an smp kernel. Using gentoo 2.6.12.r10. I |
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will upgrade to the latest 2.6.13.r3 and see if that cleans things up. |
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thanks for the info. If anyone else has any more please chime in! :) |
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Nes++ |
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Bob Young wrote: |
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>Nestor Camacho III wrote: |
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>>It would just stop compiling. Would not freeze, I was able to do |
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>>anything else, but it would just stop processing what it was currently |
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>>compiling. When I alt f2 into another window and do a top, I would see |
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>>that the sh process was at 99%, and had been running for a long time. If |
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>>I do a kill -HUP, on the process things would continue... but I can't |
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>>imgaine that his is a fix for the problem. |
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>I just joined this list about an hour ago, so I haven't seen the orginal |
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>post. Thought I'd pass along the experience I had recently installing Gentoo |
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>on a dual Opteron box, as it seems it may be relevant. The first week was |
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>very frustrating due to the fact that compiles would just stop at various |
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>randomly chosen points during either the stage1 or stage2 build. Compiler |
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>would just stop, no error message, no error indication of any kind, just no |
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>output, though a ctrl-c would return to the command prompt. |
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>Being the stickler for getting a clean build that I am, I would abort the |
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>install and start over with different use flags and/or compile switches, or |
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>various other changes. Nothing resolved the hang untill I disabled SMP and |
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>the IOAPIC by adding "nosmp" and "noapic" to the command line of the install |
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>CD. |
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>I've done several re-installs since then, for various reasons, all related |
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>to deciding I wanted something different. The hang has never happened since. |
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>Note this only seems to ba a problem with the kernel on the install CD, as |
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>after one particular install I sucessfully emerged kde-meta (about 36 hours |
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>of downloading and compiling) with the SMP enabled kernel I built. |
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>FWIW |
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>Bob Young |
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>San Jose CA |
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