On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 12:48:44PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > (Third attempt - the first time I attached my .config, but that > >made it too big for this list. The config is now at > >http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/tmp/config-3.14.4 > > I read your other posts, but just to confirm, I had a fresh SVN-20140515 and > took your config file, ran make oldconfig and then make. > > I don't think your configuration will work for me, but the build went fine > with only a few warnings. > > You might want to run a memory test on your system. > > -- Bruce >
Thanks for reminding me - I've now downloaded memtest86+-5.01, I'll give that a try after libreoffice completes. When I first saw this problem, I ran whichever version of memtest I was using and it came up fine. Sometimes this box can go for a few months without problems, other times it has hit a segfault at least once on every build-new-lfs, reboot, build-blfs cycle. I know of someone else with a phenom, he scripts his kernel builds (I think it is a "production" machine) and uses -j3 because of the problem. I've no idea what motherboard he uses, but the one common feature is that we both use 8GB of memory, his kernels are 32-bit with pae, mine are 64-bit. Perhaps we have one of the supporting chips in common, and it isn't good enough for 100% reliability when 8GB of memory is present : with windows, who would know ? ;-) Mentioning a full amount of memory reminds me that my first or second athlon64's motherboard didn't like running with a full load of memory on its stock settings. In those days, I think a "full load" was a massive 2GB, probably DDR266. That one was fine with half the memory, but memtest86 would reliably fall over in a few minutes with the full load unless I decreased the memory clock rate in the bios. Maybe I'm going to be disappointed after running memtest86+. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
