Re: Kernel compilation failure

[Gilles <gilles@harfang.homelinux.org>]

Hello.

> 
> Of course with 1GB ram I am not sure I ever hit swap at all, so it may
> not mean much.
>


I also have 1 GB RAM.  In order to make the system use the swap, I had
to launch 3 concurrent kernel compilations (each allowed to "-j2").

Sometimes it works through the end.  Most of the time not, and I get
these errors (one for each compilation failure):

Sep 30 17:13:08 dusk kernel: [ 2812.564576] mv[3956] general protection rip:2aaaaaaac80e rsp:7ffffffc08c0 error:0
Sep 30 17:34:27 dusk kernel: [ 4090.665852] rm[16259] general protection rip:2aaaaaaac80e rsp:7fffffbc1a70 error:0
Sep 30 17:39:35 dusk kernel: [ 4399.178030] rm[884] general protection rip:2aaaaaaac80e rsp:7fffffdc1a00 error:0
Sep 30 17:55:11 dusk kernel: [ 5335.154363] mv[7640] general protection rip:2aaaaaaac80e rsp:7ffffffc1560 error:0
Sep 30 18:12:47 dusk kernel: [ 6391.078104] gcc[19297] general protection rip:2aaaaaaac80e rsp:7ffffffc10b0 error:0
 
Twice, the system froze (while compiling). In those cases, nothing
appears in the log.

What do those "general protection", "rip", "rsp",... mean?

Obviously, I'm interested in finding out what's wrong with the system.
Do you have suggestions as to what I should do to have the kernel provide
a little more information in "kern.log"?


Best regards,
Gilles