Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-03-02 Thread Mick
2011/3/1 Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org: On Tuesday 01 March 2011 23:14:12 Mick wrote: Ha! I remember on an old machine when in WinXP would rarely if ever crash, while in Gentoo would crash every time. My machine is only about a year old, built by a specialist builder of high-

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-03-02 Thread Mick
On 2 March 2011 16:29, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 15:51:54 +, Mick wrote: This would typically happen in the middle of an emerge, which was rather annoying, and/or when updatedb was running. At least you could re-run an aborted emerge; when my box

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-03-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 16:37:11 +, Mick wrote: You can still resume a merge after a power down, with ebuild /path/to/ebuild merge. I see ... by path you mean /var/tmp/portage/... ? The path to the actual ebuild- /usr/portage/cat/pkg/pkg-ver.ebuild -- Neil Bothwick The best things

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-03-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Mick writes: On 2 March 2011 16:29, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: You can still resume a merge after a power down, with ebuild /path/to/ebuild merge. I see ... by path you mean /var/tmp/portage/... ? No, /usr/portage/category/package. Alternatively, you can use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-03-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011 15:51:54 +, Mick wrote: This would typically happen in the middle of an emerge, which was rather annoying, and/or when updatedb was running. At least you could re-run an aborted emerge; when my box hangs it just stops responding to keyboard and mouse, and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-03-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 02 March 2011 16:37:11 Mick wrote: On 2 March 2011 16:29, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: You can still resume a merge after a power down, with ebuild /path/to/ebuild merge. I see ... by path you mean /var/tmp/portage/... ? No, I think he means something like:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-03-01 Thread Mick
On Sunday 27 February 2011 23:34:09 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2011 19:43:10 Mick wrote: [...] when I had a failing memory module I would often end up with corrupted files all over the place. Think about it, when the memory gave up some write on disk function was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-03-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 01 March 2011 23:14:12 Mick wrote: Ha! I remember on an old machine when in WinXP would rarely if ever crash, while in Gentoo would crash every time. My machine is only about a year old, built by a specialist builder of high- performance systems, so it shouldn't be experiencing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-27 Thread Mick
On Sunday 27 February 2011 17:15:40 Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-02-26, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Mick wrote: Before you start tweaking voltages and replacing PSUs you better test your *new* memory modules thoroughly, even if that means that you will be using your old machine for a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-27 Thread Dale
Mick wrote: On Sunday 27 February 2011 17:15:40 Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-02-26, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: This appears to be a corrupt file somewhere. In my experice, failing RAM often appears as a corrupt file somewhere. Yep, when I had a failing memory

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 27 February 2011 19:43:10 Mick wrote: [...] when I had a failing memory module I would often end up with corrupted files all over the place. Think about it, when the memory gave up some write on disk function was invariably foo-barred. What, though, if you get hang-ups in some OSs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:20 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/25/2011 03:10 PM, Dale wrote: I got a good power supply but it could still be that. Even the best and most  expensive break from time to time. I think I could swap mine out from my old rig if needed. This new rig doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-26 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:20 PM, waltw41...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/25/2011 03:10 PM, Dale wrote: I got a good power supply but it could still be that. Even the best and most expensive break from time to time. I think I could swap mine out from my old rig if

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Random reboots. Where to start?

2011-02-25 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2011-02-25, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Well, I think my machine is possessed or something. I'm getting random reboots here. When it does this, it is like hitting the reset button. It is sitting on the grub screen when it does this. I noticed the first time