I experienced Problems with the gentoo live CD 1.4_rc4. When I boot up my PC with it and perform the instructions in the install manual step by step i get a segfault somewhen. About 10 to 20 seconds after that I get a lot of additional segfaults. Only Sys-req helps me out of this. After a reboot I could restart the installation procedure where it crashed but somewhen later I get a segfault of some other process again. One Example: I boot up with a 1.4_rc4 liveCD and follow the installation instructions until the emerge system (starting from stage1). Then the computer is working for a while and I leave it alone. After a few minutes I come back and switch to another console (emerge system is still running) and at the login i type in root <enter> Which is followed by Oops() segfault in module dhcpd. I switch back to console one where the emerge system is still running. After about 15 seconds a few segfaults appear on this console too. Then my only chance is to use sysreq. to umount everything and reboot the system. I tried to find out the cause of this problem. I tested my RAM with memtest86. No errors where found. So I think my RAM is OK. I asked #gentoo.de on IRC-Net about this issue. 2 People replied and said that they experience the same problem. It turns out that we three have the same mainboard. (Elitegroup ECS-K7VTA333 v. 3) Beside that I personally have: Athlon XP 1800+ 512 MB DDR-Ram (noname) ATI Radeon 7500 Zoltrix Nightingale Soundcard (standard C-Media chip) Adaptech AHA-2940 UW Plextor Ultraplex 32x SCSI-CD-Rom IBM DDRS-34560D SCSI HDD IBM DTLA-305040 IDE HDD IBM IC35L120AVV207-0 IDE HDD Teac Floppy Drive Compushack Fastline 10/100 ethernet adapter (standard realtek chip) Happauge WinTV (bt878) Fire-Wire Adapter LiteOn IDE DVD-ROM LG HL-DT-ST CD-RW GCE-8481B CDRW Drive After all this problems I tried a 1.4_rc3 ISO CD and got the same segfaults again. Then I used a 1.2 ISO to continue my installation and everything works completely fine. So there has to be something wrong with the new versions of gentoo. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot with 1.4_rc3 or 1.4_rc4 (rc 1&2 not tested!) 2. Work a bit with it. Actual Results: The computer crashed with numerous segfaults. Expected Results: It should have been working... ;-)
if you boot -rc4 again, try with "gentoo noapm"
please test with this option
