Re: Kernel compilation failure
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 11:02:30PM +0200, Gilles wrote:
> I spoke too quickly :-{
> Seemingly, it was just a short-lived miracle. Now I have these
> general protection faults at every compilation attempt, each time
> at a different step, and not always for the same program:
>
> Sep 29 20:11:10 dusk kernel: [31047.241928] rm[11316] general protection rip:2aaaaaaac80e rsp:7fffff9c0fa0 error:0
> Sep 29 20:21:16 dusk kernel: [31653.305200] mv[32625] general protection rip:2aaaaaaac80e rsp:7ffffffc1680 error:0
> Sep 29 21:00:50 dusk kernel: [34026.992832] mv[21793] general protection rip:2aaaaaaac80e rsp:7fffffbc08b0 error:0
>
> But for the problem above, I'm stuck. This was suggested (on the AMD
> forums) as a possible cause:
>
> -----
> Also, I (and many others) had horrible experiences with the Silicon Image
> controllers on todays motherboards -- if your system begins to use swap
> during build and you use SATA drive(s), your paged-out memory may
> occasionally be corrupted
> -----
>
> [I have SATA_sil 3114 (BIOS 5.037) onboard.]
>
> Also, other people seem to have the similar (?) problems, also with
> Tyan Opteron MBs:
>
> http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0506.0/0052.html
>
>
> Is there a way to be sure it is, or not, a kernel bug? Or a hardware
> failure?
Well I have an sil3112a on my nforce2 board (which of course is an
athlon xp not an athlon 64) and I run a WD SATA drive on that and have
never seen a problem with it yet. I do know most early seagate sata
drives have problems with the sil3112.
Of course with 1GB ram I am not sure I ever hit swap at all, so it may
not mean much.
Len Sorensen
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