I have a dual Xeon machine (Asus PC-DL (i875P chipset) MB with 2.46GHz CPUs and 1GB or DDR RAM. I'm trying to install Gentoo on it, so I downloaded and burnt a copy of the 1.4 LiveCD for Pentium 4s. I proceed with the install and everything goes well until I get to the point where after the chroot I need to 'emerge sync'. At this point one of a couple of things will happen: 1) At some point during the emerge rsync will die with the message: "rsync: error in rsync protocol data stream (code12) at io.c ..." 2) The kernel will crash with a seg fault, forcing a reboot 3) The emerge sync will finish, but attempting to bootstrap will fail immediately with portage complaining of incorrect mdsums. Trying to reboot after the kernel crash will sometimes give the following message: <4>socket: no more sockets I have disabled both hyperthreading and ACPI on the MB. I have tried with both 'smp' and plain boots off the LiveCD. I have tried with the LiveCD Basic x86. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Boot the machine with a Pentium 4 LiveCD, optionally using smp 2.Start a clean install 3.At 'emerge sync', problems will begin Actual Results: rsync either died or the kernel crashed with a seg fault. If the rsync succeeds portage will be unable to bootstrap, complaining of incorrect mdsums. Expected Results: Emerge sync and bootstrap should have succeeded normally.
Problem turned out to be a problem with the hardware (likely the RAM) as both Fedora Core 1 and Windows 2003 both fail to install on it as well.
