Best Hardware Tests for compilation/installation issues

jevidl

I have been having a lot of trouble getting Gentoo to install/compile, as in, lots of Segmentation Faults and the like. I believe it might be a hardware issue, and that's why I posted it here instead of under portage & programming or Installing Gentoo.

My first thought was to check the memory, so I downloaded Memtest-86 v3.1 and tested the memory on it. After 5 run throughs the memory is coming up fine.

My question is this: What other tests should I try in order to consider my hardware "Stable"?

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adaptr · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 8:16 am Post subject:

You could download and try stresslinux, and see where that gets you.

But what exactly are the errors, and where do they occur ?

If you're using 2004.2 - that is known to have quite a few glitches.
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jevidl · Posted: Mon Oct 04, 2004 12:44 pm Post subject:

I am currently using 2004.2, however I do have some 2004.0 CDs lying around I could try.

Pretty much any time I was trying to compile something I was getting segmentation fault errors that would end the compilation. I don't recall exactly which packages, but it happened a few times with a few different packages, on both stage1 and stage2.

I will check out stresslinux when I get home.