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On 2012-12-24, Teodor Spæren wrote: |
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> Hello! |
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> I am trying to install gentoo on an old armada m700. The specs that I |
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> think is relevant for this problem is the clocking speed of the cpu |
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> and the ram. It got 223mhz of clocking speed and 116mb ram. I have |
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> added 512mb of swap since I knew the ram was going to be a problem. |
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> The command I issue is: "emerge gentoo-sources" and the output of the |
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> command is this: http://bpaste.net/raw/66293/ |
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> The only thing I can really read from the error message is that it |
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> runs out of ram. This surprises me because all it is really doing is |
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> moving the kernel sources into place? I asked around in #gentoo on |
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> irc.freenode.net and someone adviced me to turn of "MAKEOPTS="-j2" and |
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> "-pipe", but this doesn't fix it. |
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No surprise here, from what I can see, what's happening is that *emerge* |
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is running out of memory, it's not a compilation, so -pipe or MAKEOPTS |
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won't make any difference here. Are you, by any chance, running anything |
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else on the machine, or maybe you forgot to enable the swap? |
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Even then, unless emerge has changed a lot in the last few years, I |
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doubt you need that much memory to have emerge copy files to /. But |
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check the output of "free -m" or something like that to check whether 1) |
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there's something else using a lot of memory and 2) the swap is |
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effectiely enabled. |
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> The possible work around I have thought of is just getting the vanilla |
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> kernel from kernel.org, but the gentoo wiki advise against it, since |
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> gentoo-sources is a patched kernel. |
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You can install the vanilla kernel, I think you can even use emerge for |
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that, but I also think your problem here is with emerge running out of |
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memory, not gentoo-sources being incompatible. I'd try to fix whatever |
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the emerge issue is as it will probably prevent you from installing |
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other packages, and that is effectively a major issue when you want to |
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use the system. |
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> This is my first post to a mailing list, so I hope it is not to bad! |
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> :D |
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> With best regards, |
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> - TheRedMood |
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Nuno Silva (aka njsg) |
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http://njsg.sdf-eu.org/ |
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