On Wed, Sep 09, 2026 at 10:17:48AM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have my trusty ThinkPad R51 (thus intel x86 Pemtium-M CPU) that was
> running 9.4 for a long time and was very stable (except... sofware bugs like
> framebuffer loosing acceleration, unreliable sleep mode and such).
> I compile on it ArcticFox browser, which on such system takes a couple of
> hours. It is a good stress test. It always compiled.
> 
> I decided to upgrade and instead of going 9.5 I went to 10.1.
> 
> I cannot finish compiling the browser. GCC will ICE out (Internal compiler
> error) after a while. If I reissue, it will stop again.
> 
> Often this is a hardware (RAM) issue, but the machine was very reliable and
> it would be a bad coincidence that it broke right the day of upgrading OS.

Did you track RAM usage while compiling ?
It could be that you're running out of RAM, newer compilers may need more
ressources.

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