On Monday 01 December 2003 19:50, Aaron Walker wrote: > I've been using Gentoo for about a month now (both as my mail server and > as my desktop OS) and I absolutely love it. I haven't had a single REAL > problem... (that wasnt obviously fixable, of course) until now. > Yesterday, I did a 'emerge -u world' on both the Gentoo boxes. > Unfortunately, my mail server (a P233 w/96M RAM and 2x7GB hard drives) > wasn't able to finish. It went fine through all the packages until it > got to gcc. I was monitoring the sys stats of my mail server on my main > box with ssh->top (its a headless/keyboardless box), and as expected it > was using about 95% cpu. Everything was getting REALLY sluggish in my > mail client until it finally became non-responsive. I can ping it, but > I can't ssh into it. I plugged in a monitor & keyboard and all i could > was switch virtual consoles. CTR-ALT-DELETE wouldn't even work. So I > rebooted and tried again running 'nice -n 15 emerge -u world' mainly so > I could still read my mail and let it compile at the same time. I came > home from work this morning to find it locked up again. I can't see why > this P233 could install gentoo from stage1 for 4 straight days and not > lock up, but then do it now?
Sounds like a memory problem. It may have worked compiling for 4 straight days, but did you attempt to use it interactively at all during that time? Does the hard drive churn while compiling gcc? > Any suggestions? The best you can do is leave it until it is done or compile it on another box with emerge's -b option. > Sorry for such a long post. Not so long, but paragraphs would help! ;-) Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
