Full system crash - as soon as I hit "OK" on the tooltips dialogue, my vnc session disappeared from my desktop and my "emerge openoffice" task in my ssh connection complained about a segfault and stopped emerging but the SSH session was still active. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. In the SSH connection that was still active, a "ps ax" revealed nearly all processes were defunct, and "top" revealed that "init" was using 100% of one CPU (I suspect if I was on a single-CPU system, I would not have been able to investigate). Poring through /var/log/messages, I found the following string which seems to be related:Oct 30 14:13:26 basilisk __alloc_pages: 0-order allocation failed (gfp=0x20/0). Other programs that were running: * vncserver (with connection) * sshd (with connection) * kdevelop * xterm * KDE * emerge (openoffice) * screen * apache2 * cron
Created attachment 19987 [details] emerge --info Forgot to post emerge --info content. Included here
Try running a full memtest for a couple of passes and also make sure you've got enough memory and swap...
Try running a full memtest for a couple of passes and also make sure you've got enough memory and swap... Also, we can't do much [if anything] unless this is reproducible. If most processess suddenly turned defunct and init was hogging your CPU, it was probably trying to get as much memory as it could as something was either leaking memory resources or memory was running low. Hardware failure sounds like the cause.
As we [ or you ] can't reproduce this issue, I have to close this bug as NEEDINFO. Please reopen the bug if you able to reproduce this issue.
