Re: [gentoo-user] Help needed for installing KDE
> From:: Rajat Gujral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: [gentoo-user] Help needed for installing KDE > Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 12:18:03 -0700 (PDT) > Hi , I have downloaded image (Kernel-2.6.12-gentoo-r6) for x86 architecture > from the gentoo website and complied the gentoo kernel for pentium 3 > processor (coppermine). But while emering portages for gentoo, after > compilation of KDE portage my computer hangs permanentally and nothing more > is done after that. Everytime when i restart my computer and emerge KDE, it > starts compilation from the same point . Also i keep getting DMA_INTR errors > sometimes while installion . I have tried using -c option with mke2fs but the > errors still keep coming . Is it because of that . Can anyone please help me > and suggest what would be causing this problem and how can i carry on with > the installation. I was facing some compiler problem (i368 VS i686 ) which > then was resolved by using fix_lib_tools . Is there something that i maybe > missing as this is the first time i am installing gentoo. This could be a dodgy hard disk with bad blocks, or perhaps you haven't emerged hdparm and/or not added it to your default runlevel? -- Regards, Mick Lycos email has now 300 Megabytes of free storage... Get it now at mail.lycos.co.uk
Re: [gentoo-user] Help needed for installing KDE
Hi, the first suspect when the box behaves abnormal, is to run memtest86 for a while - like 4h. If it finds some errors, congratulation, ou found the culprit - if not, try something different ;) If your dma-errors are harddisk related, a new ide-cable may solve your problem... this little bastards are broken so fast and easily, it is sickening. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help needed for installing KDE
hi,
i am not able to locate memtest86 ... can u pls guide me with it .. I have changed my ide cable but the DMA_INTR are still coming ..
Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,the first suspect when the box behaves abnormal, is to run memtest86 for a while - like 4h.If it finds some errors, congratulation, ou found the culprit - if not, try something different ;)If your dma-errors are harddisk related, a new ide-cable may solve your problem... this little bastards are broken so fast and easily, it is sickening.-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing listRgds & ThnxRajat Gujral+=+| {When GREAT minds are at work ||... Impossibility is not an OPTION} | +=+__Do You Yahoo!?Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
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Re: [gentoo-user] Help needed for installing KDE
When you boot the livecd at the kernel prompt (where you normally type
gentoo) you should type memtest86 to start memtest. I'm pretty sure
thats how I did it last time I needed it but I'm not gonna reboot to
find out :)
-MikeOn 8/21/05, Rajat Gujral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
hi,
i am not able to locate memtest86 ... can u pls guide me with
it .. I have changed my ide cable but the DMA_INTR are still coming ..
Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi,the first suspect when the box behaves abnormal, is to run memtest86 for a while - like 4h.If it finds some errors, congratulation, ou found the culprit - if not, try
something different ;)If your dma-errors are harddisk related, a new ide-cable may solve your problem... this little bastards are broken so fast and easily, it is sickening.--
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RE: [gentoo-user] Help needed for installing KDE
-Original Message- From: Rajat Gujral [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 August 2005 04:52 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Help needed for installing KDE hi, i am not able to locate memtest86 ... can u pls guide me with it .. I have changed my ide cable but the DMA_INTR are still coming .. If I remember right, with Knoppix you just type memetest (look at the cheat codes by pressing F2/F3 on bootup). Memtest86+ will only show you dodgy memory, not device bad blocks. For that I think that you need to run badblocks. Did you emerge and set up hdparm? You might as well do that before any test like bad blocks, because without it access to your disks is going to be pedestrian. -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Help needed for installing KDE
On Monday 22 August 2005 05:51, Rajat Gujral wrote: > hi, > > i am not able to locate memtest86 ... can u pls guide me with it .. I have > changed my ide cable but the DMA_INTR are still coming .. > > > > Volker Armin Hemmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > the first suspect when the box behaves abnormal, is to run memtest86 for a > while - like 4h. > > If it finds some errors, congratulation, ou found the culprit - if not, try > something different ;) > > If your dma-errors are harddisk related, a new ide-cable may solve your > problem... this little bastards are broken so fast and easily, it is > sickening. emerge -s memtest: sys-apps/memtest86 Latest version available: 3.2 Latest version installed: 3.2 Size of downloaded files: 128 kB Homepage:http://www.memtest86.com/ Description: A stand alone memory test for x86 computers License: GPL-2 * sys-apps/memtest86+ Latest version available: 1.60 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of downloaded files: 143 kB Homepage:http://www.memtest.org/ Description: Memory tester based on memtest86 License: GPL-2 it des not matter which one you choose, just install it (mount /boot before you start emerging!), edit grub.conf so you have such a line: title=MEMTEST86 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/memtest86/memtest.bin and the next boot, choose it and let it run for some hours. If memtest does not find any errors, check the harddisk. smart should be enabled, smartmontools are a good collection to read out the smart data. Errors? Uh, time for a new harddisk. And then there is badblocks, which you should run too. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
