While emerging boost-1.33.1-r1, it killed X and put my system into hardlock. I tried again without X running in the console, and the system became increadibly unresponsive, starting at this line in the emerge: gcc-C++-action bin/boost/libs/regex/build/libboost_regex.so/gcc/release/shared-linkable-true/fileiter.o After a few minutes, it returned me to a prompt with: jimmers@igentoo ~ $ g++: internal error: Killed (program cc1plus) Please sumbit a full bug report See<URL:http://bugs.gentoo.org/>for instructions It then continued to hang on: gcc-C++-action bin/boost/libs/regex/build/libboost_regex.so/gcc/release/shared-linkable-true/posix_api.o I was able to switch over to another terminal, albeit slowly, and according to top, each processor was spending a ton of time (>90%) in IOWAIT. Killing the emerge did not return the system to a responsive state, and I had to hard power off.
Portage 2.1.2.7 (default-linux/amd64/2007.0, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.20-gentoo-r8-mactelpatches-macbook-core2duo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.20-gentoo-r8-mactelpatches-macbook-core2duo x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T5600 @ 1.83GHz Gentoo Base System release 1.12.9 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 16:00:01 +0000 dev-lang/python: 2.4.4-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r2, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes"CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=nocona -march=nocona -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msse3" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/home/jimmers/portovly" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X acl alsa amd64 berkdb bitmap-fonts cli cracklib crypt cups dri fortran gdbm gpm iconv isdnlog libg++ midi mmx mudflap ncurses nls nptl nptlonly opengl openmp oss pam pcre perl pppd python readline reflection session spl sse sse2 ssl tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_ DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="i810 vesa" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=nocona -march=nocona -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -msse3" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"