Compile time instability on iBook

jbc42 · n00b Joined: 15 Jun 2003 Posts: 28

Now this is an interesting one - has anyone seen this?

Compiling large packages (kernel/Xfree) causes the compile to freeze (no sig 11 or anything). When changing into another console I start getting funky errors. The one I'm looking at now says "SystemError: com_node: unexpected node type" - that was from running emerge --update --pretend xfree.

I'm currently running 2.4.20-ben10, but I'm trying (and failing) to compile a more stadard kernel linux-2.4.20-ppc-r3. Either way I've had the same problems with benh and the previous (r9?) release of the ppc sources.

I suspect the memory, however it passed memory tests fine yesterday (when I bought the machine).

It's an iBook 900, 640M RAM + 640M swap (no problems with excessive swap in these builds is there? - going to reduce this anyway...) - I bought it yesterday.

zojas · Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2003 5:26 pm Post subject:

probably hardware (memory) problem. pull out the 512mb chip and try the compile again with just the 128 built in.

I like having the same amount of swap space as I do ram, that way if the software suspend (swsusp, think hibernate) functionality ever starts working in ppc I'll be ready to go.
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genfoo · Apprentice Joined: 17 Apr 2003 Posts: 192

that is a python error, sounds like a portage bug to me

make sure you time and date are set correctly

it's not a kernel issue, and the gentoo-ppc kernel is actually much LESS standard than the benh stuff (it's benh + a bunch of additional patches)

jbc42 · n00b Joined: 15 Jun 2003 Posts: 28

Well, I had these problems yesterday... today - no problems. Only thing that has changed is location (???)

The only thing I can think of is had anyone had problems with iBooks overheating??? I give up (but as long as it works, who cares?) - I have gentoo on x86, sparc64 and now PPC, and this one has had some real head scratchers :-)