On Sep 27, 2011 8:47 AM, "Harry Putnam" <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
>
> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > What do your basics performance tools like top and friends say? See
> > what swap usage looks like outside the chroot while the compile is
> > running - is it thrashing? What speed are you getting for the hard disk
> > from hdparm -t -T?
>
> Top shows CC taking about 50% or in that vacinity... nothing else of
> note is running.  But man I've been at this for 3 days, or so.
> Created at least 6 different kernels and none will get me
> booted... either I get a panic and root cannot be mounted, or the
> screen goes black shortly after grub screen... and nothing more
> happens.
>
> I've tried 3.0.4 and backed up to 2.6.39* ... all this on a machine
> that has run gentoo for several yrs.  And I'm not a complete greenhorn
> either.
>
> There must be some other source of problem I don't know about is all I
> can think...
>
> I'm on the verge of copying an OS off the livecd and using that
> kernel... this is just ridiculous.
>

Weird.

A thought occurred: could there be failing hardware? Start with testing your
RAM, then your hard disk, then everything else.

Rgds,