Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please!

[Alan Mackenzie]

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Friday 12 February 2010 10:54:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > Hi, Gentoo,

> > My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable.

> > The first sign was when the compiler threw a segfault whilst emerging
> > the xfce window manager.  I "solved" this by emerging Openbox
> > instead.

> > Then I got another compiler segfault whilst emerging firefox (yes, I
> > know there's a binary for this).



> everything you mention below is indicative of failing hardware,
> especially RAM closely followed by PSU.

> Swap them out with known good items and test thoroughly *before* doing
> anything else.

I hope you're not right here.  ;-)  The hardware is spanking brand new;
so new, in fact, that it's still gleaming.

Are there any handy utility programs around to test RAM exhaustively?

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