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 1Nfv5H-0007ZP-NE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:57:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2DAE7E0824; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:56:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.156]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB69DE0824 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:56:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 19so454234fgg.10 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:56:52 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=/qqypNwrhm0L/+gS30wpV0eEHX5sGJF8fBTDCIyzZas=; b=vaDF5yzYexibqHyky43JqGzSB3X8Q4CxwekfnYPib3vkCV0G3zp4wbvL09IEmRh56l DmnTYlvy5FxwU942PCKf9fxkx7OeACikPyw7hvXe5o09j5G5UVe+i0U8fmsYls2FFlLB MVF5iDT5fHvLOGafcAqy3o3lvUixu0W0/euUA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=KXtrx/71koNLqMUWBVjgvgRkTc2Q6sQDTevMTEDCC5geA1klarmvl50WWre/ZNFxRG oRBSTIXkLImAIq885KbaZdPvS2UdR5SKg1VdbRp7649kAIr4x4spQASzmgCqhXxCS2Jx cYnGvOcADC8Eyfupn8+U+u/JqmfCSZbrCWcuI= Received: by 10.103.87.34 with SMTP id p34mr929430mul.18.1265979412103; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:56:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from energy.localnet (ip-80-226-1-7.vodafone-net.de [80.226.1.7]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id y37sm17007359mug.40.2010.02.12.04.56.50 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:56:51 -0800 (PST) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please! Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:56:48 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.0 (Linux/2.6.31.12r4; KDE/4.4.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <20100212085453.GA1207@muc.de> <201002121050.46463.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20100212112221.GA1422@muc.de> In-Reply-To: <20100212112221.GA1422@muc.de> 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002121356.48867.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 1baaa30d-5c9e-42b6-bc4f-c56e06ace15b X-Archives-Hash: 579889970f90b19fd3e110aa33d504c4 On Freitag 12 Februar 2010, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Alan, > > 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. > > Yes, you're right. :-( > > When I run memtest86 from the gentoo boot disk, it signals millions of > failures in b11 of 32 bit words. > > I'll try unplugging and replugging these. > > Thanks for the tip. > > > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com you can try upping the voltage of the ram by 0.05V. I had a stick that threw errors unless I gave it a bit more. After that the system was stable and none of the memtesting apps found any errors.