Nestor Camacho III wrote: > It would just stop compiling. Would not freeze, I was able to do > anything else, but it would just stop processing what it was currently > compiling. When I alt f2 into another window and do a top, I would see > that the sh process was at 99%, and had been running for a long time. If > I do a kill -HUP, on the process things would continue... but I can't > imgaine that his is a fix for the problem.
I just joined this list about an hour ago, so I haven't seen the orginal post. Thought I'd pass along the experience I had recently installing Gentoo on a dual Opteron box, as it seems it may be relevant. The first week was very frustrating due to the fact that compiles would just stop at various randomly chosen points during either the stage1 or stage2 build. Compiler would just stop, no error message, no error indication of any kind, just no output, though a ctrl-c would return to the command prompt. Being the stickler for getting a clean build that I am, I would abort the install and start over with different use flags and/or compile switches, or various other changes. Nothing resolved the hang untill I disabled SMP and the IOAPIC by adding "nosmp" and "noapic" to the command line of the install CD. I've done several re-installs since then, for various reasons, all related to deciding I wanted something different. The hang has never happened since. Note this only seems to ba a problem with the kernel on the install CD, as after one particular install I sucessfully emerged kde-meta (about 36 hours of downloading and compiling) with the SMP enabled kernel I built. FWIW Bob Young San Jose CA -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
