On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 22:49 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 02:16:17 +0200, > Lars G <terraformers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > somehow gcc segfaults randomly when i try to recompile the kernel. > > it's on an x86 athlon-xp nforce2 machine, which worked ok before. > > > > the error message is: > > ... > > CC drivers/ide/ide.o > > drivers/ide/ide.c: In function ‘ide_hwif_release_regions’: > > drivers/ide/ide.c:448: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault > > Please submit a full bug report, > > with preprocessed source if appropriate. > > See <URL:http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla> for instructions. > > The bug is not reproducible, so it is likely a hardware or OS problem. > > make[2]: *** [drivers/ide/ide.o] Error 1 > > make[1]: *** [drivers/ide] Error 2 > > make: *** [drivers] Error 2 > > > > it occurs every time i try, on different parts of the code. > > have tried older versions of gcc and glibc, but this doesn't fix it for > > me. > > This sounds like a hardware problem. The last time I saw symptoms like > this my CPU fan had failed. > You should probably take a look to make sure your hardware is running at > reasonable tempatures, and if that doesn't turn up anything you should > probably check your memory. > it was indeed an hardware problem. clocked the (a little bit tuned) fsb down a notch, and now all is ok again! thanks for helping! cheers -- Lars Mail terraformers@xxxxxxxxx Web http://researchlab.terraformers.de No Big Brother! http://kai.iks-jena.de/bigb -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list