Ok, first, while I appreciate your advice, this is a brand new laptop and there's no way I'm running bonnie++ (that's prime95, right?), or anything with the words "cpu" and "burn" in the same sentence on this thing. Memtest86 might be an option as long as it has no potential to kill anything. I agree, it could be the heat, and that was the first thing that came to my mind, but Vista boots and runs for long periods of time with no issues. I'll check it out with the new kernel in the morning and see what it does.
On 5/14/07, Wil Reichert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 5/13/07, Peter Davoust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, I just conquered my gdm issues in a previous thread, and now I'm finding > that gentoo is crashing on me! Twice so far, gentoo has crashed at fairly > inappropriate times. I've used gentoo before, and not once has it crashed > meaninglessly. First, I think I was listing a directory, and it totally > froze, and then the second time I was unzipping a bzipped archive of the > latest kernel sources and it came to a dead halt. I had to hard reboot the > machine, it wasn't fun. I'm starting to get worried, especially since if it > can't handle a little tar.bz2 file, then it certainly can't emerge anything. > I'm sure you'll be wanting some logs, and I'll get them to you next time I > boot gentoo. I've got 2 gig of RAM, and a dual core processor, so those > aren't the problem, and my hard drive has plenty of free space (talking gigs > here), so that's not it either. It sounds like it's something really obvious > that I'm overlooking, but I don't understand how it could just stop. Even > the normal clicking associated with the processor "thinking" just halts. > Isn't that weird? Did this just start when you loaded Gentoo? For the sake of troubleshooting I'd start with taking Gentoo out of the loop and verifying your hardware is not the problem. Memtest86, cpuburn, and bonnie++ from a live cd should give you a decent sanity test. From there look at your kernel then compiler flags. You also may want to consider heat as well since the weather in most places is starting to warm up this time of year. Wil -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
