Re: [gentoo-user] gcc fails and then succeeds - definitely a problem?

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The gcc update just failed to compile on one of my systems with a
>>> segfault, but then succeeded after trying again even though I didn't
>>> change anything.  Does that indicate a hardware problem for sure?
>>> Should I run memtester?  Any other tests to run?  Nothing in dmesg.
>>>
>>> - Grant
>>>
>>
>> Might be.....might be nothing. Maybe a stray neutrino hit your
>> processor at just the wrong instant. ;-)
>>
>> More likely i my mind is some little corner condition in the software
>> running on your system. I've had the same thing happen many times
>> actually, and actually a few more times since I started playing with
>> your /etc/make.conf -j/-l values which push the system a little
>> harder.
>
> Whenever I get build failures with the load-adaptive MAKEOPTS and
> EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, I check the build log to see if it's relatively
> obvious that something was depended upon before it was built. If so, I
> file a bug.
>
> Happens every month or so, for me.
>

There are log files? You're telling me I should read them? Gawd,
pretty soon you're gonna try to make a real admin of me instead of
just the oblivious happy home user that I am... ;-)

Good inputs. Thanks!

Cheers,
Mark