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 1NfsHd-00030u-In for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:57:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C0C34E0BED; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:57:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3FB2EE0BED for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:57:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 12 Feb 2010 09:57:48 -0000 Received: from p5DD4733B.dip.t-dialin.net (EHLO stelf-pc) [93.212.115.59] by mail.gmx.net (mp013) with SMTP; 12 Feb 2010 10:57:48 +0100 X-Authenticated: #41475677 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+ANFYCq6mApIo0p0aBPus2B3G7hVvu5+1d3IDmbt 6Q76BzvybaElf+ Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:57:44 +0100 From: Daniel Wagener To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please! Message-ID: <20100212105744.056046b3@stelf-pc> In-Reply-To: <20100212094633.GB1207@muc.de> References: <20100212085453.GA1207@muc.de> <201002121050.46463.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20100212094633.GB1207@muc.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.2 (GTK+ 2.16.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.59999999999999998 X-Archives-Salt: 04d4cc78-d9db-4af2-8b81-e5d0313b4e5b X-Archives-Hash: ed0c319f27c501846b20d1e724930606 On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:46:33 +0000 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > 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 > you may wanna look at memtest86+, its in portage http://www.memtest.org/