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jesso
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 Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:08 pm Post subject: system freeze when installing Xorg |
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I have installed Gentoo and rebooted. Logged in as root and ran:
# emerge xorg-x11
I see it downloading the files, then compiling stuff.
I leave it for a while (oh, maybe an hour).
Come back and see it frozen.
No response to the keyboard and my "caps lock" and "scroll lock" lights on my keyboard are flashing.
Shut off the computer with the power button and do emerge xorg-x11 again. I get the same result.
Any ideas?
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hds
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| Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:11 pm Post subject: |
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does this happen with other huge packages as well?
did it freeze at the same point, or at a different one?
did you check your memory?
is the machine overclocked? |
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jesso
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| Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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"does this happen with other huge packages as well?"
Don't know. xorg is the first thing I try to emerge. I am interested in the Desktop first.
"did it freeze at the same point, or at a different one?"
Looks like a different point. The text was scrolling up the screen normally when I was first watching it. When the problem occurs I see text on the top half of my screen and the bottom half is black.
"did you check your memory?"
How? Just overwrote Mandrake Linux where I never had a problem.
"is the machine overclocked?"
How to check? Don't know. Used Mandrake Linux right up to installing Gentoo with no problems. |
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hds
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| Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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| jesso wrote: |
"did it freeze at the same point, or at a different one?"
Looks like a different point.
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smells like overclocked or faulty memory.
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"did you check your memory?"
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emerge memtest86, and run it
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"is the machine overclocked?"
How to check? Don't know. |
 doode, this is your machine and you dont know if you overclocked it 
check your bios settings.
if you never compiled huge packages with your mandrake, it is possible that you didnt notice the problem sofar. faulty memory and overclocked cpu's will show if you compile huge source packages, where the machine has a lot to work. specially if the compile process fails at different steps, this is a good sign for it. |
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jesso
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| Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:36 pm Post subject: |
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If I don't know if I overclocked it, then I didn't overclock it. 
In my Mandrake I did compile KDE, which think is fairly big. Aren't huge packages compiled during the installation of gentoo?
I guess mostly likely a memory problem. I'll run memtest86 tonight. |
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hds
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| Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:43 pm Post subject: |
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| jesso wrote: | Aren't huge packages compiled during the installation of gentoo?
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not if you do a stage3 - only the kernel is installed then as a huge source. well, huge is relativ. 
or did you already update your system, and compile glibc, gcc, etc..? i would first update system (emerge -upDv system) before i go to X anyway..
anyway - if the compile fails at different steps every time, there should be a hardware problem - IMHO |
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jesso
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| Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 12:46 pm Post subject: |
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ok
thanks for your help. |
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jesso
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| Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2004 1:02 pm Post subject: |
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Interesting...
Just read another post of someone with the same problem.
Seems like he went with 2.6 kernel and didn't have a problem.
I'll try that. |
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arkaine
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| I've been having this problem for quite a while as well. I am overclocking my cpu, BUT my motherboard automatically reboot when it gets too hot, so it's not that. I ran memtest86 off a livecd and passed it. I have no idea why it is that this happens. Funny thing is I can do ctrl+alt+f2 and try to login again, but after I type root and press enter, it freezes totally. |
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