On Thursday 24 Apr 2014 17:05:25 Philip Webb wrote: > 140424 Peter Humphrey wrote: > > I'm wearying of this chroot operation, and I must be sounding like a tyro. > > The other day emerge started hanging at the end of compilation, thus: > > # emerge -1 apache-tools > > -- details snipped -- > > >>>> Completed installing apache-tools-2.2.25 into /var/tmp/portage/app- > > -- details snipped -- > > >>>> Done. > > > > It never comes back from there, not even with a CTRL-C; > > I have to "kill -9" from another Konsole. > > Grepping ps for emerge (before the kill!) shows: > > 20749 pts/1 DN+ 0:03 /usr/bin/python3 /usr/bin/emerge --nospinner -1 > > apache-tools > > Man ps says that the D means "uninterruptible sleep (usually IO)" > > Is my hardware dying ? > > It looks like hardware : how old is it ? what is its record ?
It's only 3 or 4 years old. Never given any trouble with Gentoo, though I never managed to install any other distro - whichever one it was it would always just stop responding to anything. Looks like time to revisit the BIOS settings. I prefer to stick with unadventurous defaults rather than playing around with core voltages, nanosecond timings etc. I've already checked all the hardware (and software) I can think of that would cause errors at only a single point, so it's firmware next. -- Regards Peter
