[SOLVED] Old computer crashes while compiling certain packages with SlackBuild on Slackware 14

Neyzan · 11-11-2013, 03:28 AM

Sorry for the late reply!
It was indeed a heating problem, as suggested by several of the posts. I checked with htop but at no point did RAM usage exceeded 700Mb (usually at about 350Mb) and only a few Mb of swap space were used. After that I followed the temperature with the xfce add-on and saw that it rises very fast. At some point after 65 degrees Celsius the computer shuts down. I solved the problem by opening the case and pointing a fan straight to the motherboard.
As about the time needed for compilations, I may note that xulrunner took 8 hours to compile and chromium about 24! I know that I could download and install pre-compiled packages, but where would be the fun in that? I use my old computer to experiment and learn, that's why I installed Slackware (I've also left a partition open to install Arch in the future) and do everything the hard way...
Thank you all very much for the suggestions and insights!

Neyzan · 11-11-2013, 05:34 AM

Incidentally, does anyone know if there is a problem with the tsocks SlackBuild? I followed the instructions exactly, but i only get

Code:

/bin/sh mkinstalldirs  "/tmp/SBo/package-tsocks/usr/man/man5"
mkdir /tmp/SBo/package-tsocks/usr/man/man5
/usr/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 tsocks.conf.5 /tmp/SBo/package-tsocks/usr/man/man5/
cp: cannot stat 'tsocks.conf.{simple,complex}.example': No such file or directory

yars · 12-11-2013, 10:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Neyzan

Incidentally, does anyone know if there is a problem with the tsocks SlackBuild? I followed the instructions exactly, but i only get

Code:

/bin/sh mkinstalldirs  "/tmp/SBo/package-tsocks/usr/man/man5"
mkdir /tmp/SBo/package-tsocks/usr/man/man5
/usr/bin/ginstall -c -m 644 tsocks.conf.5 /tmp/SBo/package-tsocks/usr/man/man5/
cp: cannot stat 'tsocks.conf.{simple,complex}.example': No such file or directory

This have no relation to overheating obviously :-)
Currently on slackbuilds.org for Slackware 14.1 is available tsocks-1.8beta5, and this is beta, which may have no man and info pages, and any other documentation. Possibly this is a bug/typo in the Makefile.