System locks up during emerge sync

kong98 · n00b Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Posts: 3

I have a new system I am trying to install Gentoo on. I've been fighting with it since Friday, and it consistently locks up when I do an emerge sync.

I finally got Gentoo installed by using the portage off the livecd, rather than emerge sync, but I'd like to get my system up-to-date!

When I run emerge sync, it starts, and then grinds through some of files, and then finally locks up. (So I reboot, and re-run the emerge sync, and it gets a few more files, and then locks up again.)

When it locks up, it locks up hard. The power button doesn't work, keyboard doesn't work. I can't even switch my KVM to my other machine until I press the reset button!

I am able to emerge different packages with no problems, but the emerge sync is just eating my lunch.

My system is:

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-8IPE1000 Pro G
Ram: 512MB
CPU: Pentium 2.4A
Video: GeForce FX5200 128MB3
Network: I put in a Startech PCI network card because I couldn't get the on-board LAN to work.

Things I have done:

- Ran memtest off the Gentoo CD
- Installed WindowsME, and ran CPUBurn for a short while with no problems.
- Booted into Knoppix and played with it for a bit
- Installed an older debian
- Disabled everything in bios (USB, firewire, onboard LAN)
- Turned off the framebuffer.

I'm getting close to the end of my rope with this, so I'm really hoping someone out there can give me some suggestions on how to fix this problems.

Thanks,
Kent

koroumel · Posted: Wed Sep 29, 2004 7:07 am Post subject:

You can have the portage updated by downloading the latest version from a download mirror site. Under the .../gentoo/snapshots/ directory, there are a few .tar.bz2 files. Download the latest and then

Konsti · l33t Joined: 10 Dec 2002 Posts: 691

What Kernel Version? What ethernet chipset?
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=109640658000001&r=1&w=2
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kong98 · n00b Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Posts: 3

Thanks for your help. I manually downloaded the portage, and I'm trying to upgrade everything.

The link you provided does indeed look like my problem. I have an i865 chipset. My PCI network card is a NE2000 card (RTL-8029). The onboard LAN is a Marvell 8001 (Marvell Yukon), but I can't get it to work. I've compiled it into the kernel (not as a module) but it isn't recognized on bootup.

I was running the 2.4.22-gentoo-r7 kernel, and I've now upgraded to 2.4.26-gentoo-r9. I updated my pciutils and I'm slowly working through an "emerge --update world" to see if that fixes anything. (run the emerge, reboot after the crash, manually download the file it failed on with my other machine, copy it in manually, run the emerge again...)

It definitely appears to be related to my network card. Is it possible that the PCI card is disagreeing with the onboard LAN? Any thoughts on getting the onboard LAN working?

Thanks for your help!

Kent

Konsti · l33t Joined: 10 Dec 2002 Posts: 691

Well, when your Problem is similiar there is no help in upgrading or changing the nic. But I doubt that because I discovered the error in 2.6.9-rc2.
Best thing you could to is to get the Oops out of your machine and look at it, if it is looking similair...
I don't know what a "Marvell Yukon" 8001 is, what Motherboard is that, where the NIC is on?
Do you have a second PC and do you know about serial console and such stuff?

kong98 · n00b Joined: 29 Sep 2004 Posts: 3

Thanks again for your help. I've finally given up on this motherboard and I'm having it replaced with a different one from Asus. Hopefully I'll have better luck with it.

Kent