Strange behaviour while compiling kdebase and kdelibs: They freeze my whole system at some point. There's no way to shut down savely, I have to do a hard reset; there haven't been any problems building other big apps (e.g. gimp-1.3.9). I disabled grsecurity as it sometimes causes problems with some applications but that also didn't help. Hardware is ok (no bad RAM, no CPU overheat or overclock, new harddisk). Possibly it's a g++ issue when compiling bigger apps written in c++. If you only could reproduce this behaviour... hardware specs: Athlon 800 TB 512 MB Infineon Ram ;-) Asus A7V-133 Mainboard Seagate Barracuda 40GB UDMA 100 HD Compiler flags are "-march=athlon-tbird -O2 -pipe" so packages won't get too optimized. :) I'm really looking forward to get things fixed. Cheers, tobias
i had this problem too once (and i have like 1.8gig p4 with 768 meg ram, etc...) it ended up being the fault of my kernel ... i created a new one with minimum options to compile and that one worked fine ... i was also using a vanilla kernel i grabbed from kernel.org, so its probably not a Gentoo thing ... could you try the samething ? build a kernel from vanilla sources, only enable the options which would allow you to boot the system and compile something ... no X, no sound, no cdburner, none of that stuff ...
Thanks, I'll give it a try after I've played around a bit with some windowmanagers (today's windowmanagers day ;)). I've used vanilla-sources and patched preempt and grsecurity against them. My kernel is very small in size (I usually build it with modules I really need). Perhaps preempt is my kernel's "enfant terrible". :)
Ok, built a new minimal kernel without extra patches and all that stuff. Same problem: the compilation of kdelibs starts and at some point freezes the system. It's not very slow, it's really frozen. ;) A few moments ago I tried to build it right under a terminal (to avoid that other programs could possibly envoke conflicts with compilation), same results. Right now I'm building xfree-4.2.1 and it's working nice; guess it's got something to do with either g++ or the kdelibs/kdebase ebuilds itself..
I guess it had something to do with my hardware..perhaps overheating of some specific components. After putting a ventilator next to my box everything worked fine..perhaps I should buy a few more fans. ;) Closing bug.
