HP Pavilion dv6060ea freeze on CPU load

tg90nor · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Posts: 9 Location: Norway

Hi,
Today I decided to wipe out windoze on my new laptop (HP Pavillion dv6060ea), and install gentoo.

I decided to do a 64-bit install, and everything went fine, until I booted the new kernel, and started building packages:
The computer started to hang up randomly while comiling.
I decided to restart the installation with a stage2-image (was using stage3), and configure the kernel myself, but that did not help at all.

While I was using windoze, I did not have any problems at all.
Any ideas abot what might be the problem?
If you need more info, please let me know.

Hagar · Guru Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 445

The laptop could be overheating, that's not uncommon.
Or it could have bad memory, you can test that with memtest (should be on the livecd)

tg90nor · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Posts: 9 Location: Norway

I am running memtest now.
How can I find out if it is overheating?

crus · n00b Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 14

I don't think it's overheat, becouse as of recently, my box freezes when i compile something, memtest says all is ok, and it is, it freezes only when i compile, for example, there is no way to compile glibc cuz it freezes totally at some point.. not the same each time.

i'm on dual p3, with gcc 4.1.1, latest baselayout, gcc-config, make and autoconf tools...

Is anybody else having these hangups and freezing while compiling?

tg90nor · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Posts: 9 Location: Norway

Well, it seems like we have the same software versions, so that could be it. Anyone knows what can I do to try to trace down the problem?

crus · n00b Joined: 07 Jun 2006 Posts: 14

Well, for me problem is gone, i emerged "emerge --oneshot libtool"
did etc-update
env-update
source /etc/profile

rebooted, and finnaly emerge glibc went with no freezes..
maybe coincidance, but it's worth a shot for you!

tg90nor · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Posts: 9 Location: Norway

Well, I rebuilt libtool, and it worked ok for some time, but during the X11 compilation, it started to hang up again.
I suspect the kernel for being the guilty one, as it managed to hang during boot now.

Hagar · Guru Joined: 11 Feb 2003 Posts: 445

What about your CFLAGS?

a16b03 · Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 11:33 pm Post subject:

I Had The same problem 5 days ago On My P4.

What I did was - insalled older version of kernel. And no problem.

2.6.18 was hanging randomly - it just p***d me off, right now i have gentoo-sourcer-2.6.17-r8

I Think it's some kind of kernel bug. It was on bought gentoo and vanila sources.

tg90nor · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Posts: 9 Location: Norway

Installed ubuntu, and it worked fine until I updated the system. After the update I got the same problems as before.
My gentoo CFLAGS="arch=athlon64 -Os -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"

a16b03 · Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 2:56 pm Post subject:

What version Of kernel?

a16b03 · Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:09 pm Post subject:

tg90nor · n00b Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Posts: 9 Location: Norway

I dont think my cflags is the problem, as the latest freebsd cd hangs during boot with acpi enabled, and ubuntu seems to freeze randomly with acpi enabled. I am suspecting a bios bug, but windows is running perfectly fine.. :roll: