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On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 23:02 on Monday 11 October 2010, Mark Knecht |
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> did opine thusly: |
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>> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> |
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> wrote: |
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>> > Uh-oh. |
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>> > genlop started failing today with the mysterious error "Illegal |
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>> > instruction", and it's consistent - every time. That's all the message, |
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>> > nothing else: |
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>> > |
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>> > $ genlop -t portage |
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>> > Illegal instruction |
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>> > Now emerge dbus-glib fails similarly: |
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>> > /bin/sh: line 21: 1084 Illegal instruction /usr/bin/gtkdoc-rebase -- |
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>> > relative --dest-dir=/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.88/image/ |
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>> > --html- dir=${installdir} |
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>> > I don't really know where to start looking..... |
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>> > I just know Google is going to give me millions of useless hits with that |
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>> > search, but I'll hope over to b.g.o. meanwhile and poke around unless |
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>> > someone else has a better idea. |
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>> Alan, |
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>> Consider (if possible - is this a desktop or some in service |
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>> server?) powering down your machine, reseating your memory DIMMs, |
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>> powering back up and if possible running memtest86 (assuming it's an |
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>> x86 machine) and then seeing if the error goes away. |
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>> I've run into this a couple of times when memory problems have appeared. |
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> Yes, that was it - memtest failed almost immediately. It's my notebook, with |
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> 2 x 2G memory banks - either one in either position works fine. With both, |
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> memtest fails and always at the same place - step 48 of whatever. |
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> So I guess it's the motherboard and I'll be calling Dell Support in the |
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> morning. Am I glad the company insists we buy 3 year next-day on-site |
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> corporate support for all hardware right now? You betcha! |
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Not glad for the problem but glad I could help. |
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Best wishes getting it fixed fast and back on your lap. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |