Emerging Ghostscript reboot the system

txitxo

I was installing Gnome from the stage 3 when start to emerge ghostscript and the system reboot itself when start to compile it, last line i see before reboot is

robnotts · Posted: Sat Jul 31, 2004 1:00 am Post subject:

I had a similar problem... turns out it was ccache causing part of the problem.

Once I turned off ccahce, a lot of my compile problems went away.

Rob.
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txitxo · Posted: Sun Aug 01, 2004 11:16 pm Post subject:

I did it, and no change, still hanging as you can see in my 1st post :cry:

toofastforyahuh · Apprentice Joined: 18 May 2004 Posts: 172

For what it's worth I had almost the same problem months ago. Hangs and/or reboots on specific emerges, including ghostscript. It was reproducible. I think libtiff was another.

I don't remember exactly what I did first. I went through several combinations until I found a magic formula. This was on my SK8V/FX-53. At the time I was on kernel 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 and I know I updated to 2.6.6 and later 2.6.7.

For awhile I had noapic turned on in the kernel, but I don't do that anymore. I think I disabled legacy USB in BIOS and that helped something tremendously.

Since then my stability concerns have been ECC related. I have DRAM scrubbing enabled in BIOS along with ECC support and that leaves my machine rock solid except for a cold boot hang! (and no I don't think it's bad RAM. I have another post on that subject months ago here.)

But that is another thing to try--make sure RAM passes memtest86 on the extended tests overnight. And all of the usual checks (PSU, cooling, etc).

xijo · n00b Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 14

having nearly the same problem (hangs instead of reboot) and i am sure, it's no hardware issue (heat, ram - everythings alright)

i will now give multilib compiled gcc a try because of hanging with 'arch.h' on an amd64 system - smells like x86-64 compatibility-problem.

if it's good i'll tell you.

greetz
xijo

<--workaround could be simple (but dumpy) like:

Enverex · Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 1:20 pm Post subject:

Also having the same problem, completely up to date software on the system (and I mean everything

) and it just hard-reboots whilst emerging Ghostscript. Highly annoying. Is anyone still looking into this?

racoontje · Veteran Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 1290

Poke! I have this too... Ghostscript is being a dependency of kdelibs (??) while I'm trying to emerge amaroK and K3B :'(

Please advise :-)

BTW, I have and AMD64 too... 2005.0 profile, new shiny install...

racoontje · Veteran Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 1290

I have filed a bug on b.g.o, would everyone who is experiencing this problem please be so kind as to post the output of `emerge --info`?

Enverex · Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2005 9:57 pm Post subject:

Emerging GCC with Multilibs then trying to emerge Ghostscript didn't work. Still hard-resets the computer. Very, very bad!

racoontje · Veteran Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 1290

This happens for me in 2005.0... Multilib should be working anyway...

Enverex · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 7:30 am Post subject:

Something I forgot to mention, this also happened to me back in december last year so it was broken back then aswell.

robnotts · Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2005 10:31 am Post subject:

Not at my machine now, so I can't post my emerge --info output, but will get around to it when I get home.

I actually have two machines, one based on an NVIDIA NForce 3 chipset, one based on a VIA K8T800Pro chipset. otherwise they are identical.

If I want to compile Ghostscript, not the AFPL or GNU variants, I have to swap the drives over to the VIA based motherboard, otherwise I cannot compile Ghostscript, I just get a hard reset. I can't see how it can be a memory issue, as I have had the machine running MEMTEST86 for over two days successfully, and the PRIME program for a further two days without any errors.

It does seem that on NFORCE based motherboards Ghostscript will reset the machine, on VIA based ones, it doesn't.

The problem might become moot anyway if the problems with the AFPL and GNU variants putting the libgs.so files in the wrong directory get sorted. They compile without any other problems.

Rob.
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racoontje · Veteran Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 1290

I have an nVidia nForce 4 SLI...

Remusx2 · Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 4:29 am Post subject:

I am also having the same problem....

Emerging Gnome, MPlayer, and XFCE.

The system I am running is DFI LanParty Board with NFORCE4 chipset - AMD 64 3000+ - Geforce 6600 GT - 2 X 512 Corsair

And that's about all that matters.......

I hope this gets fixed soon because I'm not a big fan of Xine.

gtr-xu1 · Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2005 5:22 am Post subject:

I had similair errors where my machine would hard reboot in the middle of a compile. It was irratic behavior but the errors couldnt really be reproduced. Packages would fail and build perfectly after a reboot.

BIOS update solved all my issues. - Apparently its very important with the AMD64 stuff to keep the BIOS updated. Or so Gigabyte tech support told me when I was having memory imcompatibility issues.

I have dual BIOS, and I have kept the original BIOS (v.F4) on one of the BIOS chips. I have installed the latest version (v.F11) on the other bios chip.

The differences are amzing. I have fan issues, temperature alarm issues, usb issues, and memory issues, all which get solved when I run the latest BIOS.

Hope that helps

edit: The hard reboots went away with bios update too

mattpenfold · n00b Joined: 14 Sep 2004 Posts: 6

I also had this problem.

I got around it by installing a pre-compiled version of ghostscript from the amd 64 grp using the emerge --usepkg option.

Hope this helps.

Matt

hex63 · n00b Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6 Location: Sweden