Bug#311140: gcc-3.4: Kernel compile hangs

[Vikram Vijayaraghavan <vvikram@gmail.com>]

Package: gcc-3.4
Version: 3.4.3-13
Severity: important
Justification: fails to build from source

Hi, 
This is probably not the _cause_ of the problem
but here is what is happening on my system.

I used gcc-3.3 initially to compile the latest
2.6.11 kernel image (installed from deb package)

gcc-3.3 randomly segfaulted.all the time, while 
compiling. reportbug told me that this was fixed
in gcc-3.4 . after installing 3.4 and pointing
/usr/bin/gcc to it i recompiled. but someway 
in the middle it just stopped. i tried to bg
it and kill the process and try again but then
i got it into a bizarre state. a killall -TERM make
just hung there. a killall -9 make hung[???]

even worse opening another console and trying 
ps auwwx just hangs. 

my initial doubt was it was a disk issue
as _another_ disk but same system has caused problems
but i cant find _any_ messages in /var/log/messages
whatsoever.  

sorry if this is not related to gcc-3.4 but is a more
general issue. 

thanks



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-386
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages gcc-3.4 depends on:
ii  binutils                    2.15-5       The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  cpp-3.4                     3.4.3-13     The GNU C preprocessor
ii  gcc-3.4-base                3.4.3-13     The GNU Compiler Collection (base 
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-21 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                     1:3.4.3-13   GCC support library

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