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 1PupUO-0007qg-7V for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:05:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BF0BC1C072 for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 17:05:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B29861C04E for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 16:29:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from zaphod.digimed.co.uk (zaphod.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 37B577BD107 for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 16:29:26 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 16:29:20 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start? Message-ID: <20110302162920.7ffb0915@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <4D67CBC0.4000604@gmail.com> <201102272334.09092.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <201103012314.24652.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <201103012351.52033.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8cvs61 (GTK+ 2.22.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/2PeY+7F.nu6Nf_npTmlNtn+"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: db68c1ab7493a509e71e42d59b5c2c3e --Sig_/2PeY+7F.nu6Nf_npTmlNtn+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 15:51:54 +0000, Mick wrote: > >> This would typically happen in the middle of an emerge, which was > >> rather annoying, and/or when updatedb was running. =20 > > > > At least you could re-run an aborted emerge; when my box hangs it > > just stops responding to keyboard and mouse, and the network > > interface stops receiving packets so I can't ssh in from another box > > to shut it down neatly. It's BRS time. =20 >=20 > No I couldn't. :-( >=20 > The whole system would freeze up, no keyboard, no network, no nothing. > I had to pull the plug every time. Not even Alt-SysRq? That's a serious lockup. You can still resume a merge after a power down, with ebuild /path/to/ebuild merge. --=20 Neil Bothwick Drop your carrier .. we have you surrounded --Sig_/2PeY+7F.nu6Nf_npTmlNtn+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk1ucGUACgkQum4al0N1GQNa0wCgtULlQy3nSJpMb8TVXH6DbxU9 toAAoKpEya4QO3l6I9EAGJDqgu2FMsw9 =G7ke -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/2PeY+7F.nu6Nf_npTmlNtn+--