Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please!

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

I am (was) getting this as well on a new amd64 install (zotac ION n330)
- it appears there is a problem with certain glibc 32bit libraries -
there is a bug about it.  Upgraded glibc and most things are now happy -
but I still cant build gcc.

BillK



On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 10:50 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Friday 12 February 2010 10:54:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > Hi, Gentoo,
> > 
> > My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable.
> > 
> > The first sign was when the compiler threw a segfault whilst emerging
> > the xfce window manager.  I "solved" this by emerging Openbox instead.
> > 
> > Then I got another compiler segfault whilst emerging firefox (yes, I
> > know there's a binary for this).
> 
> 
> 
> everything you mention below is indicative of failing hardware, especially RAM 
> closely followed by PSU.
> 
> Swap them out with known good items and test thoroughly *before* doing 
> anything else.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > 
> > Then, on somebody's advice (not fully understood), I did
> > 
> >     # emerge -e gcc
> > 
> > , to try and get a consistent working gcc.  This crashed.  I repeated
> > the invocation, and it crashed more quickly.  :-(
> > 
> > At this point, I thought, just reload "everything" from the stage3, with
> > 
> >     # cd / ; bunzip2 /stage3-amd64-20100121.tar.gz
> > 
> > , which didn't help either.  I emerged gentoolkit, to see if I could get
> > some handle on the mess.  Then
> > 
> >     # revdep-rebuild -p
> > 
> > threw a segfault.
> > 
> > At this point, I'm feeling a bit sad.  My rough guess is that there's
> > some conflict somewhere between 32-bit and 64-bit code, and some of my
> > USE flags are inconsistent with some others, or the kernel, or something
> > like that.
> > 
> > One other thing I remember vaguely is that early on, some emerge told me
> > I had to "revdep-rebuild" something.  I wasn't able to do this through
> > not yet knowing what "revdep-rebuild" meant, and not having any file of
> > that name on my system.  Could this be the cause?
> > 
> > Finally, is there a way of reloading/rebuilding ALL the executables
> > onto/on my system without discarding all my painfully wrought config
> > files and without portage getting confused?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for the help!
> 
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William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
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