On Thursday 30 November 2006 07:56, Vladimir G. Ivanovic wrote: > Let's take a poll. > > 1. Have you seen this error message in an emerge?
Yes, several times. > 2. Have you subsequently identified a hardware problem, fixed the > hardware problem, and have not seen the message since? Yes. 99% of the times it was bad RAM (verified with memtest86). Of course, for trivial emerges a subsequent emerge completed fine, but the first failure put me on the alert. > 3. Have you re-run the emerge and not seen the message in a while > (please indicate how long "a while" is.) For me, "a while" is "since fixing the hardware problem". > BTW, do you know portage/emerge/make/whatever knows that the problem > is not reproducible? If, all other things being equal, a subsequent attempt at the same operation does not exhibit the problem, or fails differently, there's a good chance that the problem is not reproducible. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
