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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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