[gentoo-user] Re: Package compile failures with "internal compiler error: Segmentation fault".

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Dale wrote:
>
> Here's the update.  Grant and a couple others were right.  So was some
> of my search results, which varied widely.  Shortly after my reply to
> Grant, I shutdown the new rig.  I set my old rig back up so I can watch
> TV.  Then I booted the ever handy Ventoy USB stick and ran the memtest
> included with the Gentoo Live image.  Within minutes, rut roh.  :-(  The
> middle section of the test screen went red.  It spit out a bunch of "f"
> characters.  I took a pic but haven't downloaded it yet but I figure it
> has been seen before.  Pic is to get new memory stick.  Figure I need to
> prove it is bad.
>
> Anyway, I removed one stick of memory, it still failed.  Then I switched
> sticks.  That one passed the test with no errors.  I put the original
> stick back in but in another slot.  Within minutes, it failed the same
> as before.  So, I put the good stick in and booted into the Gentoo Live
> image.  I mounted my OS, chrooted in and did a emerge -ae @system.  The
> bad stick is on my desk.  It looks sad.  Like me. 
>
> Once the emerge was done, I booted back into the OS itself.  Everything
> seems to be working but I'm back down to 32GBs of memory.  I'm trying to
> start a emerge -ae world but got to start a new thread first.  It claims
> some weird things that sounds weird but I don't think it is related to
> the memory issue. 
>
> I wonder how much fun getting this memory replaced is going to be.  o_O 
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-) 
>


I forgot to ask, is there anything else that bad memory could affect? 
I'm doing the emerge -e world to make sure no programs were affected but
what about other stuff?  Could this affect hard drive data for example? 
Just the things I created while stick was bad I'd hope. 

Just wondering what I should look out for here. 

Dale

:-)  :-)