Chromium fails to compile [SOLVED]

jerann · n00b Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 67

So, I've had a pretty strange problem. I have an old desktop file/web server running Gentoo which has no monitor or inputs usually. The other day, I ssh'ed in, ran screen, did an emerge --sync, then emerge -uND world, then detached screen (I think it had been a bit less than 2 months since the last update).

I was very surprised when several hours later, I noticed that I couldn't navigate to my samba share on that server. I tried to ssh in, but there was no response. The power light was still on, so I plugged in a keyboard and a monitor. The monitor was blank, and the keyboard numlock light didn't come on even when tapping the numlock button. I figured the computer froze, shut it down and powered it back up. The same thing happened a couple more times, and I managed to track down www-client/chromium as the offending package. I locked chromium's version in /etc/portage/package.mask, ran emerge -uND world, revdep-rebuild, and dispatch-conf. Everything else seemed perfectly normal, but when I try to unmask chromium again and build, same problem.

It somewhat sounded like a hardware issue, so I figured I'd save build.log, let it fail again, and compare to see if it's consistently failing in the same place. I tried that last night, but I didn't get around to checking until this afternoon, and lo and behold the server was still responding when I checked. The Chromium build failed and errored out. This seems to suggest that the computer was just becoming unresponsive, but not actually crashing before - if that's correct, I could have just waited and the server would bounce back (albeit still without an updated Chromium). The interesting thing is that I did go ahead and compare build.logs, and the're pretty close to the same. Here's the last line from when it "froze":

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21607

What is the output of free -m on that machine? You can run that without trying to build chromium again.

jerann · n00b Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 67

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21607

I have read that the Chromium build process is very memory hungry. That looks like a rather constrained system to be building a memory hungry program. Can you add more swap? I would try to have at least 3GB swap for this.

jerann · n00b Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 67

Looks like that did the trick. My setup has a 512M swap space, so I created a 3GB swap file in addition, and chromium compiled just fine. I hadn't seen the "free" command before, so that's a handy tool to have. Thanks for the help!

IsraelBuitronD · Guru Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 343 Location: México

Hi!

I was compiling chromium and it crashed.
It did not throw any error message:

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phajdan.jr · Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:33 pm Post subject:

Well, just get more swap. That may mean resizing your partitions etc.
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cach0rr0 · Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 10:52 pm Post subject:

you could, just as easily simply set up a swap file rather than messing with partitions

make a quickie /swap.img using dd (from /dev/zero or some such)
mkswap /swap.img
swapon /swap.img

no need to repartition.
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Jaglover · Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 11:17 pm Post subject:

Running make with -j1 will reduce memory requirements drastically.
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tomk · Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 11:36 am Post subject:

Merged from here.
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LoudRobedPriest · n00b Joined: 07 Oct 2011 Posts: 8

Chromium was working fine until I synced and tried to reemerge it. The emerge failed and now it won't run at all.

I would've used pastebin, but I just emerged surf to post this and I can't get past the captcha for some reason.

I don't have a lot of experience with failing builds so if this is the wrong way to seek help, please point me in the right direction

cach0rr0 · Posted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 7:06 am Post subject:

merged 1 post above

LoudRobedPriest - you seem to be running out of memory.

best interim solution, if you arent starved of disk space, make a temporary swap file to turn on while youre doing this merge
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LoudRobedPriest · n00b Joined: 07 Oct 2011 Posts: 8

Thanks, sorry about redundant thread making. I'll try that.
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papapenguin · l33t Joined: 20 Sep 2005 Posts: 694 Location: Bellevue

I'm having an issue emerging chromium, as well...although I'm not sure if it's the same...

...it was mentioned before to make a temporary swap file...where would I find instructions to do this?