-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Why not also try an emerge sync as opposed to exploding the latest portage tarball. More to what others are saying, my laptop that overheats has a similar problem where it will tank under an enourmous load (the temp gets to 84C). I never had a problem with the fan on the sparc so I never replaced it. Eric John Stoffel wrote:
Mike> On Tuesday 10 April 2007, ken jones wrote:
While doing "tar xvjf /mnt/gentoo/portage-latest.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr" the machine stopped dead. This has happened twice. I fear that I do not have enough hard disk space, but I would hope for a gentler error message.
Mike> i doubt disk space has anything to do with it ... if the machine Mike> bit it like this, it's because the kernel barfed either due to Mike> bad driver or bad hardware
It smells like bad hardware to me... what you can do is drop down to the openprom prompt (ok) and do the following:
ok setenv diag-switch? true ok setenv diag-level max ok setenv auto-boot? false ok reset
And watch what happens on bootup. This will test the machine a bit more and let you know what's happening.
Also, the Ultra 1s had a bad problem with the CPU fans, I ended up replacing dozens of them at a past job. Open the case and make sure the CPU fan is running. While oyu're in there, blow out any dust you can with some compressed air, just to make sure.
If the CPU fan isn't spinning, then you know where there problem is.
Also, if I could, I'd just give you some old Sparc 60s we're scapping here at work... :]
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