I'm building my fourth LFS system and started on xorg 7.2 yesterday. Once I untangled some dependency issues (which I really should have documented to save others the hassle), everything went smoothly until the server itself. It gets as far as xf86ScanPci and then hangs - BOY does it hang. All other processes came to a complete halt and I thougth the whole system was locked up; then it returned to the bash prompt saying gcc: Internal error: Killed (cc1).
Build system is an AMD Sempron 2100+ with 512MB RAM. OS environment is a fresh LFS build, with kernel 2.6.21.5 and gcc 4.2.0. The first time, I was chrooted into the new system so I could keep my old system running to check email and do the occasional work-related task to keep the boss happy, and I thought the compile requirements of xf86ScanPci might be so great that 512MB wasn't enough to compile that while running X, fluxbox, Evolution, Gaim, and Firefox all at once - the crash brought all of those down, too. So I tried again without anything else running, and got the same results. I thought maybe trying to build it in the chroot environment wasn't working, so I rebooted into the new system exclusively and tried again with the same results. I specifically told it to run only one job at a time (although I think that is the default) and it still didn't help. I went into the hw/xfree86/scanpci/ directory and tried to make just that one item. Same results, although I got an interesting message about memory failure that would not pipe to a log file; it only displayed to the screen. Finally I keyed in the specific gcc line that compiles xf86ScanPci.c by hand, and it compiled with no errors. Then make built the rest of the system without any further problems. So I got past it and X seems to work OK, even running DRM tests fine, but I worry that I'm ignoring whatever underlying problem caused the memory crash in the first place. Has anyone else encountered this problem? Or does anyone have a suggestion on what I can test for? -- Peter B. Steiger Cheyenne, WY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Find out how you can get spam free email. http://www.bluebottle.com/tag/3 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
