On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Grant <emailgr...@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. -- :wq
