Bug#567641: closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> (Re: Bug#567641: linux-source-2.6.32: segmentation fault during compile)
How can I investigate the problem further to determine the exact cause?
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Debian Bug Tracking System
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> which was filed against the linux-source-2.6.32 package:
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> #567641: linux-source-2.6.32: segmentation fault during compile
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> It has been closed by Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>.
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> From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> To: 567641-done@bugs.debian.org
> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:47:32 +0000
> Subject: Re: Bug#567641: linux-source-2.6.32: segmentation fault during compile
> On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 07:21 -0500, Daniel Bolton wrote:
>> Package: linux-source-2.6.32
>> Version: 2.6.32-5
>> Severity: important
>> Justification: fails to build from source
>>
>>
>> I installed linux-source-2.6.32, copied the tarball from /usr/src/ to my regular
>> user's home, extracted it, ran 'make menuconfig', changed the Processor Type
>> from "generix x86_64" to "K8", saved the changes, ran 'make-kpkg clean', and
>> finally ran 'fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version "-dbb-deb" --revision
>> "20100130" --initrd kernel_image kernel_headers'. About five minuted in to the
>> compiling, it stopped with the following error (using gcc 4.3):
>>
>> CC block/deadline-iosched.o
>> CC block/cfq-iosched.o
>> CC block/compat_ioctl.o
>> block/compat_ioctl.c: In function ‘compat_fd_ioctl’:
>> block/compat_ioctl.c:452: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
>> Please submit a full bug report,
>> with preprocessed source if appropriate.
>> See <file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.3/README.Bugs> for instructions.
>
> Compiler bug, or more likely a hardware fault.
>
> Ben.
>
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> Ben Hutchings
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> but it's never been everything to anybody.
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Daniel Bolton <danielbarrettbolton@gmail.com>
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
> Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 07:21:12 -0500
> Subject: linux-source-2.6.32: segmentation fault during compile
> Package: linux-source-2.6.32
> Version: 2.6.32-5
> Severity: important
> Justification: fails to build from source
>
>
> I installed linux-source-2.6.32, copied the tarball from /usr/src/ to my regular
> user's home, extracted it, ran 'make menuconfig', changed the Processor Type
> from "generix x86_64" to "K8", saved the changes, ran 'make-kpkg clean', and
> finally ran 'fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version "-dbb-deb" --revision
> "20100130" --initrd kernel_image kernel_headers'. About five minuted in to the
> compiling, it stopped with the following error (using gcc 4.3):
>
> CC block/deadline-iosched.o
> CC block/cfq-iosched.o
> CC block/compat_ioctl.o
> block/compat_ioctl.c: In function ‘compat_fd_ioctl’:
> block/compat_ioctl.c:452: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
> Please submit a full bug report,
> with preprocessed source if appropriate.
> See <file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.3/README.Bugs> for instructions.
> make[2]: *** [block/compat_ioctl.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [block] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/daniel/source/kernels/linux-source-2.6.32'
> make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2
>
>
> I then tried linking /usr/bin/gcc to gcc 4.4 and starting the process over (I
> re-extracted the tarball to ensure a clean build directory). That also halted
> about 5 minuted in, this time with the following error:
>
>
> CC crypto/md5.o
> CC crypto/rng.o
> CC crypto/krng.o
> crypto/krng.c: In function ‘krng_mod_init’:
> crypto/krng.c:50: internal compiler error: Segmentation fault
> Please submit a full bug report,
> with preprocessed source if appropriate.
> See <file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.4/README.Bugs> for instructions.
> make[2]: *** [crypto/krng.o] Error 1
> make[1]: *** [crypto] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/daniel/source/kernels/linux-source-2.6.32'
> make: *** [debian/stamp/build/kernel] Error 2
>
>
> I don't know what package actually contains a bug, so I am submitting this
> report againt linux-source-2.6.32.
>
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: squeeze/sid
> APT prefers testing
> APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
>
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
>
> Versions of packages linux-source-2.6.32 depends on:
> ii binutils 2.20-5 The GNU assembler, linker and bina
> ii bzip2 1.0.5-3 high-quality block-sorting file co
>
> Versions of packages linux-source-2.6.32 recommends:
> ii gcc 4:4.3.4-1 The GNU C compiler
> ii libc6-dev [libc-dev] 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Development Librari
> ii make 3.81-7 An utility for Directing compilati
>
> Versions of packages linux-source-2.6.32 suggests:
> ii kernel-package 12.032 A utility for building Linux kerne
> ii libncurses5-dev [ncurses- 5.7+20090803-2 developer's libraries and docs for
> pn libqt3-mt-dev <none> (no description available)
>
> -- no debconf information
>
>
>
>
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Daniel
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