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?
No offence, but I doubt an Ubuntu install would tax your resources as much as compiling your system as you have just done. Strange that you came all the way to gentoo-sources before it manifested, but perhaps it's the only one so far to keep your CPU at 100% for long enough.
Other things you could try are frequency scaling (maybe it's overheating, where a temp sensor isn't picking it up); and reseating your h/w.
Is anybody able to rescue this maiden in distress and throw some light on my problem?
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