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:
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-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
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