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Hi, Alan, |
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On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On Friday 12 February 2010 10:54:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> > Hi, Gentoo, |
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> > My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable. |
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> > The first sign was when the compiler threw a segfault whilst emerging |
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> > the xfce window manager. I "solved" this by emerging Openbox instead. |
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> > Then I got another compiler segfault whilst emerging firefox (yes, I |
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> > know there's a binary for this). |
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> everything you mention below is indicative of failing hardware, especially RAM |
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> closely followed by PSU. |
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Yes, you're right. :-( |
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When I run memtest86 from the gentoo boot disk, it signals millions of |
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failures in b11 of 32 bit words. |
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I'll try unplugging and replugging these. |
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Thanks for the tip. |
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> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |