'Twas brillig, and Ozgur at 10/09/10 00:36 did gyre and gimble: > most probably this might have nothing to do with pulseaudio but compiling pulseaudio is > the first time i've ever had this problem. checking whether getgroups works freezes compilation > mprotect(0x401a1000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 > mprotect(0x4018a000, 12288, PROT_READ) = 0 > mprotect(0x4006f000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 > mprotect(0x4004a000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 > mprotect(0x40046000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 > mprotect(0x4001a000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 > munmap(0x4001e000, 133752) = 0 > set_tid_address(0x401a56f8) = 30652 > rt_sigaction(SIGRTMIN, {0x40196600, [], SA_SIGINFO}, NULL, 8) = 0 > rt_sigaction(SIGRT_1, {0x40196680, [], SA_RESTART|SA_SIGINFO}, NULL, 8) = 0 > rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [RTMIN RT_1], NULL, 8) = 0 > getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, {rlim_cur=RLIM_INFINITY, rlim_max=RLIM_INFINITY}) = 0 > _sysctl({{CTL_KERN, KERN_VERSION}, 2, 0xbfd5cffc, 38, (nil), 0}) = 0 > > stops here and no output is provided then, cpu hits 100% > > any suggestions? Hmm, not seen this one before :s Not sure what could cause that, but I'd certainly try with a few different kernel flavours if it's not too difficult to see if the problem is somehow kernel related. Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mandriva Linux Contributor [http://www.mandriva.com/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]