I have been having that problem for quite some time now. It was really bad when I upgraded to 2.6.21. I downgraded back to 2.6.20-r4 and I haven't had near the problems. I am not sure what it is, but you aren't the only one with that problem.
Peter Davoust wrote: > Ok, I just conquered my gdm issues in a previous thread, and now I'm > finding that gentoo is crashing on me! Twice so far, gentoo has > crashed at fairly inappropriate times. I've used gentoo before, and > not once has it crashed meaninglessly. First, I think I was listing a > directory, and it totally froze, and then the second time I was > unzipping a bzipped archive of the latest kernel sources and it came > to a dead halt. I had to hard reboot the machine, it wasn't fun. I'm > starting to get worried, especially since if it can't handle a little > tar.bz2 file, then it certainly can't emerge anything. I'm sure you'll > be wanting some logs, and I'll get them to you next time I boot > gentoo. I've got 2 gig of RAM, and a dual core processor, so those > aren't the problem, and my hard drive has plenty of free space > (talking gigs here), so that's not it either. It sounds like it's > something really obvious that I'm overlooking, but I don't understand > how it could just stop. Even the normal clicking associated with the > processor "thinking" just halts. Isn't that weird? > > -Peter -- Dustin C. Hatch http://www.dchweb.com
