Bootstrapping woes

lorano · n00b Joined: 27 Sep 2003 Posts: 66

When trying to bootstrap my system ncurses and or bash fail constantly during the compile. I'm not using the ~x86 flag, nor am I using anything but the most basic of USE flags. Any ideas?

mdowney · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 9:57 pm Post subject:

My first thought is that it may be a memory or overheating issue...same thing was happenning to mine and when I swapped out the RAM I've had 0 compiler errors since...we'll I've had compiler errors since but not unexplainable ones

Twist · Guru Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 414 Location: San Diego

If you go here you can get a bootable floppy/CD of memtest86 to test your memory. It's also available on Knoppix, but I'm not sure if it's on the Gentoo liveCDs (it should be!).

If memtest doesn't show anything, and you are segfaulting, it's almost certainly the processor. If you are overclocking, don't.

If you are not segfaulting, then supplying the actual error will be helpful.

-Twist

mdowney · Posted: Fri Mar 12, 2004 10:47 pm Post subject:

actually don't be too sure of the memtest, i ran it for 24 hours running all tests without any errors, but when i changed the memory system comiled right away. So i don't put much stock in memtest86

lorano · n00b Joined: 27 Sep 2003 Posts: 66

I ran memtest86 with no problems, I've installed source mage without any hickups but when I come back to gentoo I get the following error

/usr/include/bits/string2.h:1183: internal compiler error: in walk_tree, at tree-inline.c:1770

lorano · n00b Joined: 27 Sep 2003 Posts: 66

well I found the problem I think....

Apparently I just needed to use the current ISO (I thought I was and I ended up burning one of my archived iso's instead) soon as I did that problems went away =X

Ok turns out that was PART of the problem. The other part being heat. I have a cubby to put my computer and thought it was well ventilated, cause of course no desk company would release a semi faulty product...WRONG....so after I removed the backing the install has progressed perfectly without any problems at all. Not only did I get the ncurses problem, I had gettext fail, gcc fail (also got the not sane error).

So check heating on these things during install .... ESPECIALLY if you have it tucked in a cubby...