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On Thursday 24 Apr 2014 17:05:25 Philip Webb wrote: |
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> 140424 Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > I'm wearying of this chroot operation, and I must be sounding like a tyro. |
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> > The other day emerge started hanging at the end of compilation, thus: |
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> > # emerge -1 apache-tools |
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> -- details snipped -- |
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> >>>> Completed installing apache-tools-2.2.25 into /var/tmp/portage/app- |
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> -- details snipped -- |
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> >>>> Done. |
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> > It never comes back from there, not even with a CTRL-C; |
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> > I have to "kill -9" from another Konsole. |
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> > Grepping ps for emerge (before the kill!) shows: |
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> > 20749 pts/1 DN+ 0:03 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/emerge --nospinner -1 |
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> > apache-tools |
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> > Man ps says that the D means "uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)" |
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> > Is my hardware dying ? |
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> It looks like hardware : how old is it ? what is its record ? |
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It's only 3 or 4 years old. Never given any trouble with Gentoo, though I |
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never managed to install any other distro - whichever one it was it would |
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always just stop responding to anything. |
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Looks like time to revisit the BIOS settings. I prefer to stick with |
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unadventurous defaults rather than playing around with core voltages, |
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nanosecond timings etc. I've already checked all the hardware (and software) I |
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can think of that would cause errors at only a single point, so it's firmware |
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next. |
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Regards |
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Peter |
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