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Iain Buchanan schrieb: |
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> R C Mitchell wrote: |
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>> I use Ubuntu for every day but as my box has a spare 40GB hard disk I |
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>> decided |
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>> to have a go at installing Gentoo on it for evaluation |
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> ah, who says Ubuntu isn't good for anything? Good to see you're trying |
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> a real distribution :) </flame> |
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> Typically now you'd prove me wrong and say how you've been using |
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> <dieHardLinux> for years... anyhoo welcome! |
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>> [snip excellent problem report] |
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>> I'm reluctant to believe that this is down to an arbitrary hardware |
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>> fault, |
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>> since everything else works fine. It does seem to have something to |
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>> do with |
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>> emerging gentoo-sources. |
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> hm, this screams hardware fault all over - I haven't seen one issue like |
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> this come to anything else. Usually it's the RAM. Can you humour me |
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> and try a stick from another machine, or at least reseat it? |
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Iain's diagnosis seems about right. I would start with a nice 2h |
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memtest86+ test followed with a 1h cpuburn test. |
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You could also try to download vanilla kernel sources and try to compile |
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them on Ubuntu. If you experience the same problem, you know it's not |
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Gentoo's fault ;) |
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By the way: Can you post some parameters of your system (CPU, age, ...) |
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and tell us, whether you use 64bit or 32bit versions of Ubuntu and Gentoo? |
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