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 1Pup4S-0005hh-5Y for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 16:38:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4DDB01C040; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 16:37:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-iw0-f181.google.com (mail-iw0-f181.google.com [209.85.214.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 250D71C040 for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 16:37:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn2 with SMTP id 2so129886iwn.40 for ; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:37:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=STaiPzOnxis7mr2ysiOUNdzMG4Csvg1PrdcgQ6Jd7bs=; b=b+8RLMtazeheu9eQ5unBfyxoIimtQAP82SNENRUuwRKy0ptOCfsbcxyURF2Kr9DlxD 28/BILJtRa/7Tq0xERy1L9ncA51YtRQjZh11+RVaicveWQLvTcXAOR/Q5/SvQjx3ADuB DErD1SmgtDfqpexl1bF+RShO8OBNTEXINdf0I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=UQN7iO/zzjUB5MiEwcf9PYQyWIICSGlOYq0uNyKjG3O3jXDYPEYLSD3LLzsowXE2+m X6BkfWKDQh/aoEPCgpQZGqNGysyMxqgMXNyoXiKpyWb0dNt9vGjYBpsUIHGnp6NkpGvU Zr+A29367UZ61U2QZbp9pKJ9trel8clIWBwXM= 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 Received: by 10.42.140.137 with SMTP id k9mr150822icu.100.1299083832067; Wed, 02 Mar 2011 08:37:12 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.42.213.134 with HTTP; Wed, 2 Mar 2011 08:37:11 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20110302162920.7ffb0915@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> References: <4D67CBC0.4000604@gmail.com> <201102272334.09092.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <201103012314.24652.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <201103012351.52033.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <20110302162920.7ffb0915@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2011 16:37:11 +0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start? From: Mick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: f44738a883a784f2db84e599672bc02a On 2 March 2011 16:29, Neil Bothwick 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. =A0:-( >> >> The whole system would freeze up, no keyboard, no network, no nothing. >> =A0I 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/... ? --=20 Regards, Mick