[Solved] System hangs while emerging various packages.

[ingemar]

Hi.
So, for not such a long while ago I got my new set of hardware: a DFI Lanparty nF4 Ultra-D motherboard, AMD X2 4200+ processor among some other things. So I began to install my favorite OS: Gentoo Linux. It all went well until the system began to hang while emerging ghostscript... A thread that describes the problem I had: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-310791.html. The workaround where you emerge ghostscript-afpl instead, and it works. But know I get a similar problem while emerging xine-lib. But this time I just get a Segmentation fault when I try to emerge, and sometimes there is the crash similar to the crash I got when I tried to emerge ghostscript.

I redirected the output of the emerge to a file, so that I could study which file that causes the crash, and the last line in that file follows:

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x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I../../.. -I../../../include -I../../../include -I../../../src -I../../../src/xine-engine -I../../../src/xine-engine -I../../../src/xine-utils -I../../../src/input -I../../../src/input -I../../../lib -DSIMPLE_IDCT -DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -DRUNTIME_CPUDETECT -DUSE_FASTMEMCPY -DCONFIG_RISKY -DCONFIG_DECODERS -DXINE_MPEG_ENCODER -DCONFIG_ZLIB -DNDEBUG -D_REENTRANT -DXINE_COMPILE -DENABLE_IPV6 -march=k8 -pipe -O2 -frename-registers -ffunction-sections -c h264.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/h264.o

When I later on try to emerge xine-lib again I recive this instead:

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x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I../../.. -I../../../include -I../../../include -I../../../src -I../../../src/xine-engine -I../../../src/xine-engine -I../../../src/xine-utils -I../../../src/input -I../../../src/input -I../../../lib -DSIMPLE_IDCT -DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -DRUNTIME_CPUDETECT -DUSE_FASTMEMCPY -DCONFIG_RISKY -DCONFIG_DECODERS -DXINE_MPEG_ENCODER -DCONFIG_ZLIB -DNDEBUG -D_REENTRANT -DXINE_COMPILE -DENABLE_IPV6 -march=k8 -pipe -O2 -frename-registers -ffunction-sections -c h264.c  -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/h264.o
h264.c: In function `fill_rectangle':
h264.c:387: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
h264.c: In function `decode_mb_cavlc':
h264.c:5070: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault

But this time the system didn't crash!

Another wierd thing is that I had a problem like this while emergein kdelibs (I think), but later on, when I tried emergeing, it went through nicely...
I don't think there is something wrong with the hardware... The system have previousley (is it spelled like that? I think I'm wrong) had Windows XP installed, and it worked just fine...

I have also tried increasing the RAM voltage from 2.6V to 2.8V... I read somewhere it would help, but it didn't... Anyone got an idea?

[deepspace9]

What kernel do you use. It is known that the livecd kernel 2.6.12 has some bugs. segfaults can often be fixed this way:

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echo 1 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space   

In later kernels, this is fixed though.

[ingemar]

Oh, sorry, I completely forgot to post my system information!

emerge --info says:

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Portage 2.0.51.22-r3 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.5-r0, 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 x86_64 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5-r2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.11
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8 -pipe -O2"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X aac acpi alsa audiofile avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth bzip2 cdr cjk crypt cups curl directfb dri dvd dvdr eds emboss encode expat fam flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gif gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal idn ieee1394 imap imlib immqt-bc ipv6 jabber jpeg kde lcms lm_sensors logitech-mouse lzw lzw-tiff mad mikmod mng mp3 mpeg ncurses nls ogg opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba sdl spell ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales v4l vcd vorbis wifi xine xml2 xosd xpm xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

I got a tip to remove apic from the kernel... I'll se if that helps...

[ingemar]

I got a tip to remove apic from the kernel... I'll se if that helps...

Nope, that didn't help...

[janiskr]

i had diferent error and lockups (regitry dump etc.) while compiling certain packages like glibc, it said that im missing something or just SIGSERV 11 (or something like that)

so all i did was set my RAM from DRR400 to DDR266 compile and set back to DDR400 (my ram is defective Kingston. one module is defective adn they are not similar - one is infenion other samsung chips on it works nicely T1 timings)

[ingemar]

Hey, that did work! I lowered the frequency for the memory to 133MHz the compilation succeeds!
Thanks!
But this must mean that there is something wrong with my hardware...