On Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:44:46 +0400
the guard wrote:
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> Суббота, 20 апреля 2013, 19:56 UTC от Grant Edwards
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> > On 2013-04-20, the guard wrote:
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> > > The package i decided to install required a gcc rebuild so I
> > > started rebuilding it and got a bus error. I've googled and found
> > > suggestions to lower makeopts, but it didn't help.
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> > Every time I've gotten bus errors when building things it turned out
> > to be a hardware problem.
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> > Bad RAM, failing CPU, failing motherboard power supply capacitors,
> > bad disk controller card (obviously, that was a _long_ time ago).
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> > If I were you, I'd start by running memtest86+ overnight.
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> > --
> > Grant
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> memtest revealed nothing
We had an old QNX machine start giving bus errors during compilation of
a large application. Running memtest (for approx 40 hrs) showed
nothing, but a close visual examination of the motherboard showed
bulging capacitors, i.e. failing capacitors.
