On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 09:58:57PM +0200, Christian Schlaefcke wrote:
I already tried compiling without x. The machine just locks, no
kernel
panic or segfault. Shit, please donĀ“t let it be a hardware issue :-(
I would expect the machine to crash every now and then, but anything is
running quite fine. Sounds strange.
Any ideas how to find out what exactly could cause this?
Compiling a large project (like the kernel) stresses the processor and
memory subsystem.
So it could be that your system is overheating (processor case), or that
it hits a corrupted memory page (memory case).
For testing the memory you have memtest86/memtest86+ that already comes in
Fedora Core install cds. (Although I doubt that's the problem. I'd expect
some SIGSEGVs first.)
For the processor case, start compiling the kernel and keep checking the
system's temperature (via ACPI or lm_sensors).
Regards,
Luciano Rocha