On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 07:29, Florian Philipp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Iain Buchanan schrieb: >> >> R C Mitchell wrote: >>> >>> I use Ubuntu for every day but as my box has a spare 40GB hard disk I >>> decided >>> to have a go at installing Gentoo on it for evaluation >> >> ah, who says Ubuntu isn't good for anything? Good to see you're trying a >> real distribution :) </flame> >> >> Typically now you'd prove me wrong and say how you've been using >> <dieHardLinux> for years... anyhoo welcome! >> >>> [snip excellent problem report] >> >>> I'm reluctant to believe that this is down to an arbitrary hardware >>> fault, >>> since everything else works fine. It does seem to have something to do >>> with >>> emerging gentoo-sources. >> >> hm, this screams hardware fault all over - I haven't seen one issue like >> this come to anything else. Usually it's the RAM. Can you humour me and >> try a stick from another machine, or at least reseat it? >> > > Iain's diagnosis seems about right. I would start with a nice 2h memtest86+ > test followed with a 1h cpuburn test. I believe you mean 2d memtest86+ unless computer has DDR9-99999 RAM where 100 (full) cycles could be completed in under 2 hours. Also, do cpuburn for a day or more - bad cooling could take hours to mnifest themselves.
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