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On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:46:33 +0000 |
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Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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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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> > > My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable. |
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> > > The first sign was when the compiler threw a segfault whilst |
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> > > emerging the xfce window manager. I "solved" this by emerging |
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> > > Openbox instead. |
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> > > Then I got another compiler segfault whilst emerging firefox |
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> > > (yes, I know there's a binary for this). |
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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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> > Swap them out with known good items and test thoroughly *before* |
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> > doing anything else. |
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> I hope you're not right here. ;-) The hardware is spanking brand |
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> new; so new, in fact, that it's still gleaming. |
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> Are there any handy utility programs around to test RAM exhaustively? |
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> [ .... ] |
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> > -- |
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> > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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you may wanna look at memtest86+, its in portage |
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http://www.memtest.org/ |
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