On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 13:01:26 +0100, Karsten Baumgarten wrote:

> Not so weird after all. You are running out of memory while compiling
> openoffice.org. The kernel tries to free up some memory and thus is
> happy to kill everything he thinks is not necessary (including GNOME, X,
> ...) to keep the system running. Create a swap partition or swap file
> and your problems should be solved.

Either start the emerge from a virtual console or a screen session. That
way the terminal won't be closed when the WM shots down and the compile
will continue.


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Neil Bothwick

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