336628 – sys-kernel/*-sources-2.6.35* hangs after a few days

Bug 336628 - sys-kernel/*-sources-2.6.35* hangs after a few days

Summary: sys-kernel/*-sources-2.6.35* hangs after a few days

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High major (vote)
Assignee:	HPPA Porters

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Reported:	2010-09-09 17:12 UTC by Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED)
Modified:	2010-10-22 04:45 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-09-09 17:12:17 UTC

I don't know yet what the exact cause is, but no doubt it has to do with the patchy uptake in mainline of patches from the parisc-linux team.

Marked sys-kernel/{gentoo,vanilla}-sources-2.6.35* -hppa.

Comment 1 Michael Zanetta 2010-10-11 12:09:03 UTC

Hi,

I'm not sure if we're hitting the same bug but I also have hangs on my amd64 system, when using "small" ram configuration, like 512Mb. This looks to be related to swap usage AFAICT.
I'm running 2.6.35.6 and when I have swap activated, trying to emerge gcc or glibc (it should swap memory) will hang at some point, typically when leaving src_compile for gcc. Nothing to see in dmesg.
I increased the ram to 2Gb and disabled swap and I could emerge -e system without any hangup.

Do you think it might be related?

Comment 2 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2010-10-22 04:45:17 UTC

gmsoft reports that 2.6.35.4 is OK. Keywording has been changed accordingly.