Re: Stability issues
On Saturday 21 July 2007 14:22:47 Mike Robinson wrote:
> I've been running Debian testing for about a year-and-a-half. It's been
> quite stable. I performed a dist-upgrade about two weeks ago. It's
> been unstable since. By unstable I mean that applications may crash
> (disappear) and the system may freeze. The system is freezing about
> once a day.
>
> My processor is an Athlon 64 3200+, but I'm running the 686 kernel
> (2.6.18-4). I've posted a few logs here:
>
> http://robinsonhome.org/logs1/dmesg.txt
> http://robinsonhome.org/logs1/kern.log
> http://robinsonhome.org/logs1/messages
>
> One thing I noticed while recompiling various applications is that gcc
> would display the following error:
>
> dsputil.c: In function 'pix_abs8_y2_c':
> dsputil.c:3048: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
> Please submit a full bug report,
> with preprocessed source if appropriate.
> See <URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html> for instructions.
> For Debian GNU/Linux specific bug reporting instructions,
> see <URL:file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.1/README.Bugs>.
> The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem.
>
>
> But if I just continued the build by typing 'make' again, it would pick
> up where it left off and eventually complete. For a large application,
> I may run into this problem a few times. Upon further view of the build
> logs I noticed this snippet:
>
> gcc -c -pipe -march=k8
>
>
> Does this mean that it's building the application as 64-bit? Could my
> distribution somehow now be mixed 32 and 64 bit? Could this possibly be
> the source of my problems? If so, how can I recover? If not, any
> suggestions as to how I should continue troubleshooting?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
I would think yes. K8 is 64 bit. K7 is 32. But if you're using the 686
kernel then it's the wrong one. You'd probably be better with the K7
version.
My $0.02
Joe
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