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On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> Hi, Alan, |
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> |
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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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> > > |
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> > > My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable. |
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> > > |
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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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> > > |
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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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> > |
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> > everything you mention below is indicative of failing hardware, |
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> > especially RAM 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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you can try upping the voltage of the ram by 0.05V. I had a stick that threw |
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errors unless I gave it a bit more. After that the system was stable and none |
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of the memtesting apps found any errors. |
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