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 1NfsTl-00052U-Jk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:10:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 764F7E0EFE; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:10:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0011.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.11]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66AA2E0EFE for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:10:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (ff-bigip1 [10.5.19.254]) by smtprelay03.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 29A87D5BBAB for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:10:10 +0000 (UTC) X-Panda: scanned! X-Session-Marker: 726F79407772696768742E6F7267 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1047 Received: from royw-macbook.wright.local (unknown [209.112.224.122]) (Authenticated sender: roy@wright.org) by omf02.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:10:09 +0000 (UTC) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 (Apple Message framework v1077) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo system has become unstable and unusable - help, please! From: Roy Wright In-Reply-To: <20100212094633.GB1207@muc.de> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 04:10:51 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <20100212085453.GA1207@muc.de> <201002121050.46463.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20100212094633.GB1207@muc.de> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1077) X-Archives-Salt: 518058cf-6c85-45a5-8ef4-95292d8fd8f6 X-Archives-Hash: 95b68126de532bb9205e8de3b035268a Another thing to try, change compile flag to -J1 (MAKEOPTS=3D"-J1" = emerge ...) Last time I built up a system there were a couple of packages that = couldn't handle parallel compiles. HTH, Roy=