This after noon i booted into my favorate linux distribution and things were going well untill i was in the middle of emerging anjuta and emerge died, i thought nothing of it and continued working. then i tried to chmod a+x a program i was working on and it said "Illegal instruction".. i thought "oh no not again" because this has happend to me about 5 times over the course of the year, where my system binaries just stop working, i thought that maybe libc was broken. or something like that but i dont think it is.. Linux 2.6.0-test11-gentoo i686 Pentium 3, 256 megs of ram using ext2 filesystems. im not using preempt in my kernel (anymore), i had cpu frequency scaling enabled. (i didn't touch it tho) some other weird behavior is that i re-merged portage because somehow it got messed up too, and now emerge does not work at all. also, my system is in working order because i turned cpu frequency scaling and preemt off, also ghetto rigged up most of /bin with busybox. portage and modutils still segfault!! so does /bin/fmt Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: (note: modutils also broken) root@MOJO-JO-JO root # emerge modutils Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/modutils-2.4.25 to / >>> md5 src_uri ;-) modutils-2.4.25.tar.bz2 root@MOJO-JO-JO root # and thats all she wrote, i looked at it with strace too: Expected Results: i want emerge to work so i can fix the rest of my system@!!!@#!@#!@ here is a partial strace dump of where emerge hangs: root@MOJO-JO-JO root # strace emerge modutils <...> chown32(0x81bc7c0, 0, 0xfa) = 0 chmod("/var/cache/edb/mtimedb", 0664) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, NULL, {0x40034068, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x4008eaa8}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {SIG_DFL}, NULL, 8) = 0 close(7) = 0 <...> _exit(1) = ? root@MOJO-JO-JO root # also here is a list of all the broken binaries i backed up after fixing most of /bin with busybox: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 96307 Dec 16 10:10 .bunzip2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 96307 Dec 16 10:10 .bzip2 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23647 Nov 24 06:49 .chgrp -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23647 Dec 16 09:45 .chmod -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 57679 Dec 16 09:44 .cp -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 59447 Dec 16 10:05 .gunzip -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 59447 Dec 16 10:05 .gzip -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 58091 Dec 16 10:11 .install -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19311 Dec 16 09:52 .killall -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28123 Dec 16 09:45 .ln -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 78435 Dec 16 09:42 .ls -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5984 Dec 16 09:53 .lsmod -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 19231 Dec 16 09:44 .uname -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 59447 Dec 16 09:52 .zcat please help i was on the verge of leaving gentoo for debian before i decided to take one more crack at this problem.
could you try to boot with previous kernel or a 2.6.0 vanilla?
No response for a significant amount of time. Reporter probably has a hardware problem. Closing.
