On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:50:46AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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. I hope you're not right here. ;-) The hardware is spanking brand new; so new, in fact, that it's still gleaming. Are there any handy utility programs around to test RAM exhaustively? [ .... ] > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
