Trouble with kernel stability

[franck routier <f.routier@wanadoo.fr>]

Hi,

I have some trouble with my kernel for a few days : it breaks quite often,
giving me a oops...
I noticed it is particularly bad with drm accessing null pointer... (???),
but not only. X sometimes hangs up without warning too, and once my machine
couldn't unmount file systems (giving a oops once again...)

Another point is I can't compiling kernel 2.4.1 any more. I get this error
message (after a make clean and make dep) :

socrate:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.1# make bzImage
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.1/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototype
s -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
-mpreferred-stack-boundary
=2 -march=i686   -c -o init/main.o init/main.c
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.1/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototype
s -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
-mpreferred-stack-boundary
=2 -march=i686  -DUTS_MACHINE='"i386"' -c -o init/version.o init/version.c
make CFLAGS="-D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.1/include -Wall
-Wstrict-
prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
-mpreferred-stack
-boundary=2 -march=i686 " -C  kernel
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.1/kernel'
make all_targets
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.1/kernel'
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.1/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototype
s -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
-mpreferred-stack-boundary
=2 -march=i686    -fno-omit-frame-pointer -c -o sched.o sched.c
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.1/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototype
s -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
-mpreferred-stack-boundary
=2 -march=i686    -c -o dma.o dma.c
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.1/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototype
s -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe
-mpreferred-stack-boundary
=2 -march=i686    -c -o fork.o fork.c
gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
make[2]: *** [fork.o] Erreur 1
make[1]: *** [first_rule] Erreur de segmentation
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.1/kernel'
make: *** [_dir_kernel] Erreur 2
socrate:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.1# cpp0: output pipe has been closed


On the other hand kernel 2.4.2 compiles fine...
I'm using unstable.

Is there something I should check to find out where the problem is or some
relevant information I could give to help find where the point is ?
(libraries versions, ... ???)


Thanks in advance.

Franck
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