On Fri, 12 Feb 2010 09:46:33 +0000 Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote:
> 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 > you may wanna look at memtest86+, its in portage http://www.memtest.org/
