On 10 January 2016 at 17:58, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 04:12:34PM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: >>> >>> >>> One of my machines is somewhat prone to "having a bad day", when it >>> is compiling, and I think I very occasionally (much less than once a >>> year) get a compiled program which segfaults. >> >> >> Now that I've put on my pedant's hat, what I meant was that I very >> occasionally get a normally-good program which segfaults. For other >> programs such as firefox, occasional segfaults are par for the >> course. > > > That really points to HW. I've been building a new system for a few days > now and noticing a lot of details. I have installed lm_sensors and display > info via a program not in BLFS called gkrellm.
Regarding lm_sensors (and according to the Arch Linux forums https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=193048) there appears to be a remote possibility that an lm_sensors scan can mess up the Vcom calibration on a monitor screen. Should there be a health warning on the BLFS page, and the method shown to rectify it should it occur? BTW gkrelim seems like an interesting tool set. I wasn't aware of it. Could it be added to the BLFS book? Richard -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
