I've got a problem that makes me think it's a HW problem but I'm trying to "cover all bases".
Here's what happened: Last monday I did my regular emerge --sync && emerge -uDN world all nice and dandy. After that, according to my log files anyway, I did not install a thing. I never rebooted my machine since, except that I think on Thursday it hung up on me so I rebooted it - that's when it started to freeze up on me "randomly" every now and then. At first given all the facts I thought it was HW problem. Right now I'm running Knoppix off the same machine and it didn't freeze up on me even once. That makes me thing it's an OS issue. To eliminate OS I did emerge -e system yet still system freezes up. I can do emerge -e world but I doubt it's going to help. To eliminate KDE problem I tried to run fluxbox with Firefox && xterm - same results - hard freeze. Did anybody see something similar or at least some educated guesses are welcome. Oh, by the way - it's a laptop - IBM X31, the rest is: Portage 2.1.1 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz Gentoo Base System version 1.12.5 Last Sync: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 21:30:01 +0000 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.2.11-r1 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r3, 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=pentium4 -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -msse -msse2" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -march=pentium4 -mfpmath=sse -mmmx -msse -msse2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp http://gentoo.gg3.net/ http://ftp.gentoo.or.kr/ http://mymirror.asiaosc.org/gentoo/ http://gentoo.channelx.biz/ http://gentoo.kems.net"; LANG="C" LC_ALL="en_US.utf8" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X Xaw3d acpi acpi4linux alsa arts artworkextra audiofile authdaemond avantgo ba-completion bcmath berkdb bindist bitmap-fonts bluetooth bootsplash cairo caps cdparanoia cdr chroot cli codecs crypt css cups dbus divx4linux djvu dlloader dnd doc dri dv dvb dvd dvdr dvdread elibc_glibc emboss encode esd exif fam fbcon fbdev ffmpeg firefox flac font-server fortran gamma gdbm gif gimp gimpprint glep glgd gpm graphviz gs gstreamer gtk hal iconv icq idea ieee1394 imagekits imagemagick imap imlib2 innodb input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse ipv6 irda irmc isdnlog j2ee jabber jpeg jpeg2k kde kernel_linux koffice-plugin ldap libg++ libgd linguas_en live lynxkeymap lzo lzw lzw-tiff mad madwifi mikmod mime mimencode ming mmx mmx2 mng monkey mozcalendar mozdevelop mozsha1 mozsvg mozxmlterm mp3 mpeg mplayer msn ncurses netbeans nls nojython nptl nptlonly oci8 ogg opengl opens oracle7 orathreads oscar oss pam pcmcia pcre pda pdf pdfkit perl png pnp postgresql ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime radeon readline reflection samba sdl serial session skey smartcard smime sndfile snmp speedo speex spell spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd tga threads tidy transcode truetype truetype-fonts type1 type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU vcd video_cards_radeon video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga videos vidix vim vim-with-x vorbis webdav win32codecs xanim xinerama xml xml2 xmlrpc xorg xosd xpm xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc yahoo zeo zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
