On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:29, Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Iain Buchanan schrieb: >> >> R C Mitchell wrote: >>> >>> I use Ubuntu for every day but as my box has a spare 40GB hard disk I >>> decided >>> to have a go at installing Gentoo on it for evaluation >> >> ah, who says Ubuntu isn't good for anything? Good to see you're trying a >> real distribution :) </flame> >> >> Typically now you'd prove me wrong and say how you've been using >> <dieHardLinux> for years... anyhoo welcome! >> >>> [snip excellent problem report] >> >>> I'm reluctant to believe that this is down to an arbitrary hardware >>> fault, >>> since everything else works fine. It does seem to have something to do >>> with >>> emerging gentoo-sources. >> >> hm, this screams hardware fault all over - I haven't seen one issue like >> this come to anything else. Usually it's the RAM. Can you humour me and >> try a stick from another machine, or at least reseat it? >> > > Iain's diagnosis seems about right. I would start with a nice 2h memtest86+ > test followed with a 1h cpuburn test.
I agree. One of my systems NEEDS acpid configured and running else the processor would just thermal shutdown on me (freezing before it, sometimes). I would just try and emerge cpufreq stuff and down the frequency (that, of course, if memtest exclude your ram). I say that because a well configured system will throttle the CPU before overheat, and cpuburn should run on the newly installed Gentoo to be sure. -- Daniel da Veiga