From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nfs0G-0008AC-NT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:40:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 140EBE0C71; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:39:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3DF8E0C71 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:39:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 37354 invoked by uid 3782); 12 Feb 2010 09:39:24 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD9E52774.dip.t-dialin.net [217.229.39.116]) by colin2.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:39:23 +0100 Received: (qmail 3186 invoked by uid 1000); 12 Feb 2010 09:46:33 -0000 Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:46:33 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please! Message-ID: <20100212094633.GB1207@muc.de> References: <20100212085453.GA1207@muc.de> <201002121050.46463.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201002121050.46463.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.5 (Fettercairn) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: 3d5f3e4b-38f5-4d33-9872-94e9b60c3c58 X-Archives-Hash: 7dbf6ff5af6ede52ded260ad0e72f34d On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:50:46AM +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. I hope you're not right here. ;-) The hardware is spanking brand new; so new, in fact, that it's still gleaming. Are there any handy utility programs around to test RAM exhaustively? [ .... ] > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).