Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD @system with lots of blocks!

2014-01-09 Thread Ralf Ramsauer
What I try to do in such cases (I know this is not the best solution, but it always works quite good) is to uninstall all packages that cause problems. After the world update, you can reinstall those. In your case, i would try to uninstall - libreoffice - qt* - all blocking packages But

Re: [gentoo-user] [Hardware Error]: MC1 Error: Copyback Parity/Victim error.

2013-09-24 Thread Ralf Ramsauer
A friend of mine told me, that AMD also had some trouble concerning TLB on that architecture (translation lookaside buffer). Unfortunatelly I have no references for that issue. I would keep a eye on that error, and if your system must be highly-available, i would even change hardware. Regards,

Re: [gentoo-user] [Hardware Error]: MC1 Error: Copyback Parity/Victim error.

2013-09-23 Thread Ralf Ramsauer
What kind of architecture / CPU? I suppose it's an AMD CPU as this error is thrown by drivers/edac/mce_amd.c: $ cd /usr/src/linux; fgrep -R MC1 Error drivers/edac/mce_amd.c: pr_emerg(HW_ERR MC1 Error: ); $ fgrep -R Copyback Parity/Victim error drivers/edac/mce_amd.c:

Re: [gentoo-user] [Hardware Error]: MC1 Error: Copyback Parity/Victim error.

2013-09-23 Thread Ralf Ramsauer
I share this opinion. The message says - even if the error was corrected - that there's something dramatically wrong with your - i suppose - CPU. Corrected error might imply, that some low-level feature got disabled in order to prevent furher errors. Does this error appear only once at early boot

Re: [gentoo-user] [Hardware Error]: MC1 Error: Copyback Parity/Victim error.

2013-09-23 Thread Ralf Ramsauer
. Did you recently change any hardware? Could you attach your /proc/cpuinfo? Regards, -- Ralf On 09/23/13 22:24, Ralf Ramsauer wrote: I share this opinion. The message says - even if the error was corrected - that there's something dramatically wrong with your - i suppose - CPU. Corrected