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On AD 2006 September 07 Thursday 11:11:46 PM -0400, Bill Six wrote: |
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>Hi, |
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>3 days ago I just switched back to Gentoo after not using it for |
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>about 6 months. |
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>However, I've been having issues emerging packages. Frequently, |
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>the build will crap out and I'll get something like the |
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>following. Any idea why this happens? |
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If you're getting the compiler segmentation fault on many packages at |
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random times you probably have bad hardware. The causes I've seen for |
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this are bad or intermittently bad ram/other hardware, or hardware |
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failure over a certain temperature. The first can be easily diagnosed |
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with memtest86+ as once the probe hits bad sectors you'll know about it. |
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The second is much more difficult to track down but not impossible. If |
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your compiler is segfaulting once the CPU hits a certain temperature, |
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then you can verify this is going on by emerging a package and watching |
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the temperature and observe at which temperature the compiler segfaults. |
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Older Athlons run pretty hot. If this is your case you may want to buy |
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the expensive silver heat sink compound. As for OS problems I don't |
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know what to say except that this may be a sign not to run -mm or better |
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patch sets and expect things to be stable. (: At least all the critical |
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ebuilds should filter out insanity CFLAGS. |
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Justin |
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