On Friday 12 February 2010 10:54:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo, > > My new Gentoo box has become unusably unstable. > > The first sign was when the compiler threw a segfault whilst emerging > the xfce window manager. I "solved" this by emerging Openbox instead. > > Then I got another compiler segfault whilst emerging firefox (yes, I > know there's a binary for this).
everything you mention below is indicative of failing hardware, especially RAM closely followed by PSU. Swap them out with known good items and test thoroughly *before* doing anything else. > > Then, on somebody's advice (not fully understood), I did > > # emerge -e gcc > > , to try and get a consistent working gcc. This crashed. I repeated > the invocation, and it crashed more quickly. :-( > > At this point, I thought, just reload "everything" from the stage3, with > > # cd / ; bunzip2 /stage3-amd64-20100121.tar.gz > > , which didn't help either. I emerged gentoolkit, to see if I could get > some handle on the mess. Then > > # revdep-rebuild -p > > threw a segfault. > > At this point, I'm feeling a bit sad. My rough guess is that there's > some conflict somewhere between 32-bit and 64-bit code, and some of my > USE flags are inconsistent with some others, or the kernel, or something > like that. > > One other thing I remember vaguely is that early on, some emerge told me > I had to "revdep-rebuild" something. I wasn't able to do this through > not yet knowing what "revdep-rebuild" meant, and not having any file of > that name on my system. Could this be the cause? > > Finally, is there a way of reloading/rebuilding ALL the executables > onto/on my system without discarding all my painfully wrought config > files and without portage getting confused? > > Thanks in advance for the help! -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
