Greetings;
I saw 2.6.2alpha-20090417 was up tonight so I grabbed it, unpacked it as
usual, copied my gh.cf into the tree and ran it, then went to go take care of
some laundry.
When I returned, probably 20 minutes later, I found my machine 99.999% locked
up, as in the bottom of the window task bars clock was stopped. Then I tried
to switch windows to the one kmail was running on, and 5 minutes later I noted
the clock was being updated something like once in a minute and it still had
drawn only the outline of the kmail screen. I spent 10+ minutes trying to get
to the htop screen, which was another tab on the same shell the compile was
running on. I made some notes as to where the compile was, and gave X the
vulcan nerve pinch. It promptly quit to my surprise. So I restarted it and
here I am. I have not rebooted. This is 2.6.30-rc2, uptime is 2d 9:15.
The compile died, literally in the middle of echoing the next command to the
screen, after apparently building .libs/simpleprng.o.
The next line echoed to the screen stopped at -fno-strict-a, in the middle of
the word alias I believe.
With X running again, I'm going to save this as draft & restart the build from
a make clean to see if its repeatable.
And it is not repeatable, 2nd time was a charm I guess. And amcheck seems to
be happy, so we'll see how it runs tonight. Color me slightly puzzled as
2.6.30-rc2 has so far been bulletproof. And we all know what that thumping
sound is... Me, knocking on my wooden skull. :)
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
QOTD:
"Just how much can I get away with and still go to heaven?"
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