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 1P5RPi-00057y-PL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:04:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7C7B8E0937 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 23:04:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CDA5E08BF for ; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 22:57:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy4 with SMTP id 4so791845ewy.40 for ; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:57:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=6G0nOMQdwUWV9sl2wO3IXhccK2zfSpi3EROD0HO1pPo=; b=m5+LWVGT2y2l9HN5xELaYMvG58JbdOf01QXYuruDkbTqqOaZBy20D9Fab/waQOJPHA jbtVI0NBYvNYjN4Ks7qK+B4R/y4Z3cT4hirRsx24RRh/ouy8EG4BEfg1sz8Gcdm4OEji 6FjnzoZu3ZsSwB4JZ0hGiBWKU1X0qsjq6Qvuo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=R+80v+IcuOB1bHTdHXpyd4MuDZ+37Rf6MP1MxjDEnjLd8QeYjlTqTMBQM/kNg7dlHA 9v92Nq9nBBVZuEaxu7NCZTVyRXUjKtPpM51UGFTnlCoA+Dg9ljZOaB3DqILFApG+xeJN eJoSoV5wAQojrKT/7HyW7Ygdm56/K29ktTDfM= Received: by 10.213.105.67 with SMTP id s3mr2056000ebo.51.1286837870224; Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:57:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-2-42.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.2.42]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z55sm11733907eeh.9.2010.10.11.15.57.47 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:57:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Illegal instruction" error Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2010 00:58:20 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-ck-r4; KDE/4.5.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Daniel Pielmeier References: <201010112239.49561.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <201010120026.48246.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4CB39243.2000506@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4CB39243.2000506@gentoo.org> 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="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201010120058.21060.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: b227d038-ee4e-4618-9d17-e3c7d031a7ad X-Archives-Hash: 823e8f3ae526316e6a8b995aa38af174 Apparently, though unproven, at 00:40 on Tuesday 12 October 2010, Daniel Pielmeier did opine thusly: > Alan McKinnon schrieb am 12.10.2010 00:26: > > It's none of those apparently. I checked CFLAGS set by the ebuild in the > > emerge log before posting and they looked fine. gcc was last updated a > > month ago and the machine gets updated almost daily. > > > > glibc seems possible but it's a moot point, especially as after > > investigating memory at Mark's suggestion, genlop runs fine now, world > > updates successfully and 2 ./configure errors about aclocal (that I > > didn't even mention before) have gone away. > > > > I should probably start treating this poor machine more like a notebook > > and less like a high performance machine - running flat out almost 24/7 > > is probably outside of it's design spec :-) > > Glad the reason for your problem was found. Time make use of Dell's NBD > support then :) :-) This is what happens with modern reliable hardware - I should have gone for the memory as the very very first step. It's been so long since I've had to deal with dodgy memory on anything, it just didn't occur to me.... I was ready to start looking for weird flags using weird cpu instructions. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com