On 10/28/07, Dan Farrell <dan@spore.ath.cx> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 06:04:43 +0200
> "Yoav Luft" <yoav.luft@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > hello,
> > during an emerge -uDN process, the compilation for gcc-4.2.1 failed,
> > as well as for glibc, with same errors.
> > I have run revdep-rebuilt, and found out about a broken
> > libexpat.so.0thingy, which I solved following the instruction of the
> > gentoo irc bot.
> > after that, compiling gcc still fails.
> >
> > insn-emit.c: In function 'gen_leave':
> > insn-emit.c:1123: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
> > . . .
> > I'm clueless about it, but do feel that not being able to updaate gcc
> > or glibc  is bad, and will probably mean that I will not be able to
> > update other things as well.
>
> Have you done a memtest-86, and waited for a few days, or at least a
> few error-free complete passes?
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>
>

I have waited for a few days, and tried different versions of gcc and glibc,
all failed.
I did had an overheating problem a couple of months ago, right around the
time the problem started. So, it could be that the CPU is semi-toasted? How
do I run memtest-86? Is there anything else that's worth checking?