large emerge crashes. usefull info to provide? (SOLVED)

Armond · n00b Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 12 Location: US, Texas

Hi folks.

I have somewhat successfully finished a stage 3 install using the 2006.0 live CD. However, there were many system hangs and crashes durring the large emerges such as for xorg and gnome, and I would like to clean this up as large emerges still croak most of the time.

Emerge or one of it's callees typicaly reports either 'internal error' or something along the lines of 'error not reproducable'. And, the /var/log/emerge.log is providing such high level info that it's of little help in narrowing things down.

Breaking down the emerge, by installing large dependencies individualy served as a work around durring the install, but as-is doing something like and 'emerge -uv world' is out of the question with all the crashes.

It would be helpful to have some direction here. Any idea on a starting point (Perhaps rebuilding some system packes like gcc), or which logs and system info to provide here to help debug.

Thanks, -Armond

yabbadabbadont · Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:32 am Post subject:

Boot the live cd and take the memtest86 option to test your memory. The symptoms you describe usually turn out to be a bad stick of memory.
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Armond · n00b Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 12 Location: US, Texas

Memory it was. Without the bad stick, a fresh install went flawlessly. xorg, gnome... not so much as a hiccup.

Many thanks.
-Armond

x22 · Apprentice Joined: 24 Apr 2006 Posts: 208

The same happened to me. And it was memory too.

Gcc seems to be good memory tester.