Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo box "hangs"

2006-10-07 Thread Nico Schümann
2006/10/7, b.n. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: If you suspect the memory/mobo, try instead to compile some large package. Often this results in random segmentation faults for gcc. Faulty memory should result in crashes and segfaults and erratic behaviour, apart from freezes. I had had some trouble with m

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo box "hangs"

2006-10-06 Thread b.n.
My 2e-2 euro: a relatively frequent freeze of the machine can also mean a going-to-fail power supply. It was for my machine in at least two cases. If you have a good power supply to do the experiment, try. It's a cause more often than not. It is expecially true if the logs say nothing and you

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo box "hangs"

2006-10-06 Thread Mick
On Friday 06 October 2006 16:25, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > On Friday 06 October 2006 00:58, Mick wrote: > > I've run memtest86+ a number of times and no errors were shown. > > There's a whole thread (either in this ML or in the forums) as to > > why memtest is not a foolproof test for your *system

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo box "hangs"

2006-10-06 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On Friday 06 October 2006 00:58, Mick wrote: > I've run memtest86+ a number of times and no errors were shown. > There's a whole thread (either in this ML or in the forums) as to > why memtest is not a foolproof test for your *system* as opposed to > a memory module. Try to search around and look

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo box "hangs"

2006-10-06 Thread Mick
On Thursday 05 October 2006 20:22, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > thanks for sharing. One question I have - did you run memtest86 or > something similar at the time? The reason I'm asking - I ran > memtest86 on this machine and it showed nothing. I'm not entirely > sure how much I can trust memtest.

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo box "hangs"

2006-10-05 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 18:24, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 04 October 2006 21:01, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > > To eliminate KDE problem I tried to run fluxbox with Firefox && > > xterm - same results - hard freeze. > > > > Did anybody see something similar or at least some educated > > guesses

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo box "hangs"

2006-10-04 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 21:01, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: > To eliminate KDE problem I tried to run fluxbox with Firefox && > xterm - same results - hard freeze. > > Did anybody see something similar or at least some educated guesses > are welcome. Last time I experienced something like this w

[gentoo-user] gentoo box "hangs"

2006-10-04 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
I've got a problem that makes me think it's a HW problem but I'm trying to "cover all bases". Here's what happened: Last monday I did my regular emerge --sync && emerge -uDN world all nice and dandy. After that, according to my log files anyway, I did not install a thing. I never rebooted my