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 don´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
