Emerging KDE freezes my computer

bosko · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 2:41 pm Post subject: Emerging KDE freezes my computer

I tried emerging kde several times,but everytime it freezes (and I have to shutdown my computer uncleanly) my computer. It seems to happen while its compiling kdelibs-3.1.1a. Does anyone know what could be the problem?
Is it possible to emerge the binaries for KDE?

richw · n00b Joined: 06 Jul 2002 Posts: 30 Location: UK

Not too sure if this helps or not, but I had problems compling XFree86, turned out my mainboard (ECS K7S5A) didn't like the 256MB DIMM in there (Didn't mind the previous on in there!!), changed it for a 512MB one, worked, then gnome failed so I pop'ed in some DDR and everything has been fine since

Do you have any spare sticks of RAM about?

You could try slowing down the memory timings in the BIOS.

CPU Overclocked?

bosko · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 4:14 pm Post subject:

I compiled Xfree and gnome without problems,so I don't know why kde is giving problems. My CPU is not overclocked. Well,I could buy more ram,but cant solve the problem software-wise?
Maybe I should get rid of the opmtimalisation while I compile kde?

evilregi · n00b Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Posts: 5

After experiencing the same problem with a few large emerges, I found that after rebooting the system would pick up where it left off. My system isn't overclocked either, but it is working with only 128M ram.

bosko · Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2003 5:12 pm Post subject:

I know that it picks up where it crashed,but it keeps crashing ever time I emerge kde,at the same point.

bsolar · Bodhisattva Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 2764

You should check your system and make sure there are not overheat problems, they are the major lockup cause during compilation.

You might want to do some tests.
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bosko · Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2003 11:42 am Post subject:

Well,what do I do if my CPU does get to hot or my memory is bad?

Cuchulainn · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Apr 2003 Posts: 107

I had the same problem. Check out this thread:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=46894&highlight=compiling+kde
I hope this helps.

Cheers, Cuchu