On Montag 16 Februar 2009, Daiajo Tibdixious wrote: > After the last round of updates, which was mostly Qt & gtk+ my system > has been locking up after a while. On the last occasion I had 'top' > running & it showed nothing unusual. > > It was mind blowingly difficult to install/rebuild gtk+ as configure > said pango was not installed, > & continued to say that after pango was remerged. I eventually had to > remerge cairo, openal, & some others before it would install. > > After about 5 forced poweroffs & reboots after freezes, my bzImage > gave CRC error & would not boot. I built another kernel (2.6.26 gentoo > r4 from memory). This fixed numerous other problems I have been > having, however the system still locked up. > > During the freeze I can still move the cursor around but not select > anything & the keyboard does nothing. > > I'm going to start looking at memory tests and hard drive tests. > > I've never had this problem before & I don't really know how to track > it down, other then by ruling out 1 thing at a time. > > I had the system up in single user mode for quite a long time, while > building the kernel config & looking up kernel settings on a windows > computer (which I'm using now). As soon as I start X/KDE its only a > few mniutes before it hangs, > so I suspect a bug in Qt, since it was the main upgrade.
at the end this sounds like either memory or PSU problems. Get a known good psu and let memtest run for a couple of hours. If it throws errors, try to increase the voltage of the memory modules a tiny little bit.
