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paneves

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Registered: 2016-01-17

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[SOLVED] Laptop totally freezes when installing qgis from AUR

Hi all:

I'm trying to upgrade qgis from 2.14 to 2.16. Whether I'm using pacaur (pacaur -Syu) or starting from scratch (downloading qgis snapshot, extracting it, then running makepkg -sri inside the folder), the build process runs up to 25% and then my laptop freezes completely to a point where I need to press the power button to power it off and the reboot again. There are no error messages on the terminal nor logs on the build folder.

The CPU temperature reaches 88ºC at some points during the building process, mas mostly stays below 80ºC. I'm building the package on my home folder, not on tmpfs and I have more than 50 Gb free on my SSD and around 2 Mb of free RAM.

Where/how can I try to troubleshoot what's causing this freeze?

Thanks in advance:

Pedro

Last edited by paneves (2016-07-14 20:15:36)

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Re: [SOLVED] Laptop totally freezes when installing qgis from AUR

This can happen if you're running out of swap. If you've enabled parallel make in /etc/makepkg.conf, disable it, otherwise ask the AUR maintainer for help.

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Scimmia

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Re: [SOLVED] Laptop totally freezes when installing qgis from AUR

Funny enough, right now you have to do a parallel build or it fails. I'm waiting for cmake 3.6.0 to hit testing before I report it upstream.

Otherwise, the maintainer (me) has no clue here, assuming that 2Mb of free RAM is a typo. If it's not, well that's a good indication.

Last edited by Scimmia (2016-07-13 19:14:19)

paneves

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Registered: 2016-01-17

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Re: [SOLVED] Laptop totally freezes when installing qgis from AUR

Yes Scimmia. 2Mb was definitely a typo. I meant to write 2 Gb...
I'll stick with qgis 2.14 for the time being...
Thanks for your help anyway.

All the best
Pedro

paneves

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Registered: 2016-01-17

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Re: [SOLVED] Laptop totally freezes when installing qgis from AUR

I'm managed to build qgis 2.16 from a tty. I've logged out from Plasma and build the package from scratch (with make -j4) without errors. I guess my troubles were related to RAM.

Anyway, problem solved.

alex.theoto

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Re: [SOLVED] Laptop totally freezes when installing qgis from AUR

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