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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?
Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 16:37:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTin=eYP-1E00XrvYV2K9JScbxfHDSSs+94vL2au=@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110302162920.7ffb0915@zaphod.digimed.co.uk>

On 2 March 2011 16:29, Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.
>> >
>> > 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.
>>
>> No I couldn't.  :-(
>>
>> 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.

Yep, when that box locked up, it didn't do it by half.


> You can still resume a merge after a power down, with
> ebuild /path/to/ebuild merge.

I see ... by path you mean /var/tmp/portage/...  ?
-- 
Regards,
Mick



  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-02 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-25 15:33 [gentoo-user] Random reboots. Where to start? Dale
2011-02-25 16:56 ` Helmut Jarausch
2011-02-25 23:06   ` Dale
2011-02-26 15:33     ` Yohan Pereira
2011-02-26 15:46       ` Dale
2011-02-27 17:52         ` Jason Weisberger
2011-02-27 20:12           ` Dale
2011-02-27 23:32             ` Peter Humphrey
2011-02-28  1:38               ` Dale
2011-02-28  7:03           ` Dale
2011-03-01 23:25             ` Jason Weisberger
2011-03-02  0:53               ` Dale
2011-03-02 14:15                 ` Paul Hartman
2011-02-25 17:08 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-02-25 23:10   ` Dale
2011-02-26 22:20     ` walt
2011-02-26 22:40       ` Mark Knecht
2011-02-26 22:52         ` Dale
2011-02-25 17:14 ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2011-02-25 18:03 ` Paul Hartman
2011-02-26  0:18   ` Dale
     [not found] ` <4d67fbde.83a0df0a.5870.3917@mx.google.com>
2011-02-26  0:24   ` Dale
2011-02-26  9:27     ` Mick
2011-02-26 14:28       ` Dale
2011-02-27 17:15         ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-02-27 19:43           ` Mick
2011-02-27 20:23             ` Dale
2011-02-27 23:34             ` Peter Humphrey
2011-03-01 23:14               ` Mick
2011-03-01 23:51                 ` Peter Humphrey
2011-03-02 15:51                   ` Mick
2011-03-02 16:29                     ` Neil Bothwick
2011-03-02 16:37                       ` Mick [this message]
2011-03-02 16:51                         ` Neil Bothwick
2011-03-02 16:52                         ` Alex Schuster
2011-03-02 23:52                         ` Peter Humphrey
2011-02-26 16:18     ` [gentoo-user] " Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-02-27 10:02     ` Volker Armin Hemmann

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