On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 3:21 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 23:02 on Monday 11 October 2010, Mark Knecht > did opine thusly: > >> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> > Uh-oh. >> > >> > genlop started failing today with the mysterious error "Illegal >> > instruction", and it's consistent - every time. That's all the message, >> > nothing else: >> > >> > $ genlop -t portage >> > Illegal instruction >> > >> > Now emerge dbus-glib fails similarly: >> > >> > /bin/sh: line 21: 1084 Illegal instruction /usr/bin/gtkdoc-rebase -- >> > relative --dest-dir=/var/tmp/portage/dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.88/image/ >> > --html- dir=${installdir} >> > >> > >> > I don't really know where to start looking..... >> > I just know Google is going to give me millions of useless hits with that >> > search, but I'll hope over to b.g.o. meanwhile and poke around unless >> > someone else has a better idea. >> >> Alan, >> Consider (if possible - is this a desktop or some in service >> server?) powering down your machine, reseating your memory DIMMs, >> powering back up and if possible running memtest86 (assuming it's an >> x86 machine) and then seeing if the error goes away. >> >> I've run into this a couple of times when memory problems have appeared. > > > Yes, that was it - memtest failed almost immediately. It's my notebook, with > 2 x 2G memory banks - either one in either position works fine. With both, > memtest fails and always at the same place - step 48 of whatever. > > So I guess it's the motherboard and I'll be calling Dell Support in the > morning. Am I glad the company insists we buy 3 year next-day on-site > corporate support for all hardware right now? You betcha! >
Not glad for the problem but glad I could help. Best wishes getting it fixed fast and back on your lap. Cheers, Mark