On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:44:46 +0400 the guard wrote: > > > > Суббота, 20 апреля 2013, 19:56 UTC от Grant Edwards > <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com>: > > On 2013-04-20, the guard <the.gu...@mail.ru> wrote: > > > > > The package i decided to install required a gcc rebuild so I > > > started rebuilding it and got a bus error. I've googled and found > > > suggestions to lower makeopts, but it didn't help. > > > > Every time I've gotten bus errors when building things it turned out > > to be a hardware problem. > > > > Bad RAM, failing CPU, failing motherboard power supply capacitors, > > bad disk controller card (obviously, that was a _long_ time ago). > > > > If I were you, I'd start by running memtest86+ overnight. > > > > -- > > Grant > > > > > > > > > > > memtest revealed nothing
We had an old QNX machine start giving bus errors during compilation of a large application. Running memtest (for approx 40 hrs) showed nothing, but a close visual examination of the motherboard showed bulging capacitors, i.e. failing capacitors.
