On May 17, 2012 11:19 PM, "Michael Scherer" <a6702...@unet.univie.ac.at> wrote: > > On Wed, 16 May 2012 07:41:32 +0700 > Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: > > > On May 15, 2012 7:50 AM, "Dale" <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > Maybe like me, you blabber more than you think: > > > > > > http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-user-per-year.xml > > > > > > I didn't put them in any certain order but you have fallen a bit > > > tho. Someone put alum in your water or something? > > > > > > > I blabbed that much?? > > > > Gee... I purposefully stay away from piping up in threads related to > > CUPS, KDE, Gnome, and other desktop-only stuff, and still end up in > > the top 5?? o_O > > > > Rgds, > > OK, OK. May I remind you what started this thread? > If bottom-most is really that important to you, I will > of course comply, though with outlook express which I'm > forced to use most of the time this is a bit tedious. > I had no idea what a flood of angry comments my post > on preferring top-most would start off. > > My original problem (see title) is as yet unsolved. Any one > out there with an idea what might be causing this? > I'm grateful to those 3 or 4 who tried to help, but > by now I'm rather desperate and in the whole of internet > pages there is nothing even coming near. > > bugzilla told me this wasn't a bug and go to the forums. > So you are really my last resort. > > regards, michael >
Based on the information you've given, there can be only 2 possible cause: 1. The Makefile is somehow b0rken. Evidence : 'ls' instead of 'ld' 2. Some file creation failed, causing the next step to fail. Please post the output of 'df -i'. I once ran out of inodes during kernel compile, even when the filesystem (ext4) was created with IIRC 100'000-something inodes (and still having several gigabytes of free space). Nowadays, I put /usr/src and portage's tempdir on a reiserfs to prevent running out of inodes. 3. Something is wrong with your filesystem. Especially if /usr/src is *already* on reiserfs. In this case, boot using SystemRescueCD and do an offline fsck on the partition containing /usr/src 4. Swapfile / Swap partition problems. Even with enough RAM, sometimes gcc just wants a swap. Post the output of 'swapon -s' please. And there's also the possibility that somehow the swap gets b0rked. Try turning off swap, rebuild the swap, and turning it back on. Rgds,
