Hi, Alan, 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. Yes, you're right. :-( When I run memtest86 from the gentoo boot disk, it signals millions of failures in b11 of 32 bit words. I'll try unplugging and replugging these. Thanks for the tip. > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
