Re: Kernel compilation failure
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 06:28:47PM +0200, Gilles wrote:
> 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?
My first guess would be instruction pointer and stack pointer. Getting
a GPF exception from the CPU is not good at all, although in the past my
experience led my to believe it is usually caused by bugs in software.
> 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"?
Not sure what to suggest there. May have to hit lkml for help on this.
Len Sorensen
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