Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-19 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 17.01.2014 18:14, schrieb Daniel Frey: On 01/16/2014 08:07 PM, lovely2 wrote: I doubt this is a memory problem. I've just had the same problem with glibc-2.17 and python. I manually went back to glibc-2.16 and everything is fine again. I then tried re-emerging all the python versions with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-17 Thread Daniel Frey
On 01/16/2014 08:07 PM, lovely2 wrote: I doubt this is a memory problem. I've just had the same problem with glibc-2.17 and python. I manually went back to glibc-2.16 and everything is fine again. I then tried re-emerging all the python versions with glibc-2.16 installed and then re-emerged

[gentoo-user] Re: updating old box: segfaults with python [Solved] for me at least.

2014-01-17 Thread lovely2
And bingo was his nameo. Updated kernel to 3.6.25 and emerge glibc-2.17 and python still works. :) -- View this message in context: http://gentoo.2317880.n4.nabble.com/updating-old-box-segfaults-with-python-tp274112p274876.html Sent from the gentoo-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

[gentoo-user] Re: updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-16 Thread lovely2
I doubt this is a memory problem. I've just had the same problem with glibc-2.17 and python. I manually went back to glibc-2.16 and everything is fine again. I then tried re-emerging all the python versions with glibc-2.16 installed and then re-emerged glibc-2.17 and had the same problem. After

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/08/2014 11:39:21 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 08.01.2014 19:47, schrieb Grant Edwards: On 2014-01-08, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Looking forward to some clever suggestions ;-) Well, I'd start by running memtest86 overnight just to eliminate the possibility of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.01.2014 09:16, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: You can use sys-apps/memtester without physical access to the machine. I had cases where memtester found errors which memtest86 didn't. One of these cases was a machine which probably had a cache coherence problem since the error showed up only

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 01/09/2014 10:59:45 AM, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 09.01.2014 09:16, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: You can use sys-apps/memtester without physical access to the machine. I had cases where memtester found errors which memtest86 didn't. One of these cases was a machine which probably had

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.01.2014 11:15, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: You can't test all of memory, especially not low memory. But if you had a problem with some chip mapped to low memory I doubt Linux would even boot. Furthermore, memtester locks pages, i.e. it disables paging. So the machine might not be very

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-09 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 09.01.2014 09:16, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Did you try www.sysresccd.org/ version 3.8.1? I'm not sure if it is based on glibc-2.17, yet. 2.15-r3 ... just booted it in a VM and looked it up.

[gentoo-user] Re: updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-09 Thread James
Stefan G. Weichinger lists at xunil.at writes: yesterday I started to upgrade an older gentoo server at a customer. It has only been updated now and then as they tend to save money and rarely contact me ... I would like to avoid to have to drive there so it would be great to be able to

[gentoo-user] Re: updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-08 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2014-01-08, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Looking forward to some clever suggestions ;-) Well, I'd start by running memtest86 overnight just to eliminate the possibility of marginal memory. But, if memory serves, this is a remote server at a customer site -- so that may not be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: updating old box: segfaults with python

2014-01-08 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 08.01.2014 19:47, schrieb Grant Edwards: On 2014-01-08, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Looking forward to some clever suggestions ;-) Well, I'd start by running memtest86 overnight just to eliminate the possibility of marginal memory. But, if memory serves, this is a