Created attachment 314617 [details] Tail of the build fail I was compiling firefox-13.0 (I got this issue also with either 10, or 12 (don't remember which version exactly) (Currently still using 9) then Mozilla's fantastic build system brought my system almost to a grinding halt by completely claiming my HDD (I still wonder why Linux' super fair IO/process schedulers start eating out of their noses while waiting for the HDD) while executing expandlibs_exec.py. Then, a couple of minutes later, the kernel decides it has had enough fun with the silly fox and kills it. I guess Mozilla's glorious build system got the Eclipse syndrome. Sorry, no better explanation. I know most devs usually want to see the full build log, but it is 8.5M and contains 99% useless compiler output. So I attached it's tail instead. Here's emerge --info: Portage 2.1.10.49 (hardened/linux/x86, gcc-4.5.3, unavailable, 3.2.11-hardened i686) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.2.11-hardened-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_M_processor_1600MHz-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Thu, 07 Jun 2012 17:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p37 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.6.7, 3.2 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.9.9.3 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::<unknown repository>, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.1, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5, 4.5.3-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.2-r1 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.12.2 Repositories: gentoo x-portage ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mtune=i686 -O2 -pipe -fforce-addr -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/maven-bin-2.2/conf" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-mtune=i686 -O2 -pipe -fforce-addr -msse2 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs collision-protect distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox" FFLAGS="" LANG="en_US.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" emerge ran with following USE flags: USE="alsa dbus ipc libnotify minimal%* startup-notification system-sqlite webm -bindist -crashreporter -custom-cflags -custom-optimization -debug -jit% (-pgo) (-selinux) -wifi*" I've succesfully compiled various versions of firefox on this system since 2007, but after 9 it got borked :(
> collect2: ld terminated with signal 9 [Killed] Check dmesg for signs of the OOM killer. If you have pgo enabled, Firefox needs around 3GB memory during final link.
The USE flag says pgo is disabled?
dmesg shows OOM killer kicked into action. How much memory is needed during final link without pgo? I've only 1.5 GiB on this system.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 419671 ***
