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 1MyDMH-0002cP-Iy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:34:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A0B8E0833; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:34:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f174.google.com (mail-yw0-f174.google.com [209.85.211.174]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBEABE0833 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:34:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh4 with SMTP id 4so334592ywh.10 for ; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:34:15 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=XDjgLEwpT9ST/eA5ApY1GKkvqws8nnXCkdO4Pua2kN0=; b=HN8X4OyjqEbOkUpQAFo+yaJ6YV3vW3KoNQOsKNTaxFKrb0XWMIWtErAaDiYNf/yuA/ qbq7nHnDK3Pu7HWt4dT1SKZEtQvFT1bDe6nvJA+pe2IYlMfBAPV8tbgKuLvgtoLt8Cs6 rg0JqFCjiDRhefpz7pzLjmnfQ722mSqIKHHDI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=bJFB2MaCO20USt3TGzq5rC9SGVsaDJdfW6A9G9bK4wVA7AvzF6BnPRlHdjpiQzjo6X 5bMUPxnNnzQfnUTIO+6RE0QuuV1KVFHmmXYfgiGbr1CnlzVRLN9FtdQyZKeqQqahlj7U MU8VOE2XgqXz/Obir83TbzRkqt0xGYZZpsG8w= Received: by 10.100.17.27 with SMTP id 27mr7938902anq.199.1255563255530; Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:34:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-19-156-152.jan.bellsouth.net [68.19.156.152]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 22sm3984713yxe.15.2009.10.14.16.34.13 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:34:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AD65FF2.1040502@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:34:10 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20091007 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: my xorg-server 1.6 seems a bit unstable - what am I doing wrong? References: <4AD4C011.4040701@gmail.com> <200910132152.09910.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4AD596EE.90605@gmail.com> <1255559604.13674.89.camel@rattus> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ad3f2ab3-babe-42b6-8f0c-db41dc05c05a X-Archives-Hash: 827a4564074f74c8215f2a561eba69c5 Denis wrote: >> Have you tried "strace'ing" mathematica to see why it dies? >> >> BillK >> > > I ran an strace, but I can't make sense out of it. There's a bunch of > polling and trying to access unavailable resources, from what I can > see... The file is huge, but here is the tail end of it: > > << SNIP >> > > Does this make any sense to anyone? > > > OK, first off. I have no clue what this program does. I'm shooting in the dark here. I found this: http://forums.wolfram.com/mathgroup/archive/2001/Dec/msg00034.html It seems you are not alone. I browsed though a couple other places and saw people mentioning python a bit. Does this software use python by any chance? I also noticed a lot of talking about I/O issues. Are you sure and for certain that you have the right chip set compiled for your hard drive? I ran into a lot of errors once and I had the wrong chip set selected in my kernel and although it was trying to work, it didn't work very well when there was a lot of I/O activity. Programs would crash and in the Konsole I would get all sorts of errors including the plan old seg fault type. Again, read the first three sentences. Just thinking and typing and that is dangerous for me. ;-) Dale :-) :-)