Re: Trouble with kernel stability
franck routier wrote:
> 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) :
>
[...]
>
> 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
...look the signal 11 error...
>
> 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, ... ???)
>
Correct me if i'm wrong, but this smells like hardware problem, probably faulty
ram...
In the hwtools there are a couple of programs to test the memory, maybe it's
only a timing issue.
Andrea
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