[Hat] hat 2.00 make failure

[Byron Hale]

On a cold night last week, with the door open and a coat on,
I successfully installed hat 2.00. Perhaps it was a thermal
problem after all, or maybe I need to slow the processor.

Best Regards,
Byron

At 12:27 PM 6/16/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Byron Hale <byron.hale@einfo.com> writes:
>
> > The problem seems to be a bug in gcc 2.96:
> > gcc: Internal Error: segmentation fault (program as)
>
>Curious, because I have almost exactly the same environment as you:
>     RedHat 7.2, i686, ghc-5.02.2, hmake-3.05, gcc-2.96
>and it compiles just fine for me.
>
>However, I have seen segmentation faults in gcc which are due to
>hardware errors.  When I have watched this happen before, usually gcc
>gives a seg fault, then if you restart the `make', it successfully
>completes the task that failed before, then continues a bit further
>and seg faults again.  You can do that a few times, but eventually
>the whole system has a hard crash.
>
>It often means either bad RAM, or your CPU is overheating.  Can you
>check whether the processor cooling fans are operating correctly?
>Older ball-bearing fans sometimes get sticky or clog up with dust
>and no longer turn.  Also, I mentioned ACPI earlier, because that is
>a form of hardware/BIOS control where often the CPU fans are only
>switched on in response to a thermal sensor.  The Linux 2.4 series
>kernels do not implement the thermal control, so it is very easy to
>overheat the processor just by max-ing it out for 15-20 minutes.
>
>Regards,
>     Malcolm
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