Bug 101921

Summary: kernel results in segmentation fault when compiling or running configure
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Sam Gill <samg>
Component: kernelAssignee: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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says kernel bug at line 158 fault.c
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looked at the fault.c and realized that I didn't give enough info none

Description Sam Gill 2003-08-08 04:29:36 UTC 
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Description of problem:
When installing or compiling programs with such options as "configure", "make",
"make install" or "gcc x -o x", I get segmentation faults. I would have just
said it was gcc, but make is powered by perl, so I don't know which is having
the problem. I have tried running simple programs and complex ones. I sometimes
get the segmentation fault very randomly. I recieved it once when rebooting and
the if-cfg script generated a segmentation fault, the network card did not come
up. However when I logged in I started /etc/init.d/network and it faulted, and I
did it once more and it worked just fine. Even while using the uptime command it
is random. I wasn't really bothered until when trying to compile apache I
couldn't even get through the configure script without it faulting. I was able
to get through the configure script of openssl, but could not run the makefile
with any success. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.4.21-1.1931.2.349.2.2.ent

How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Works everytime I try to configure httpd-2.0.46
2. unzip and cd
3. ./configure (randomly get segmentation faults, at different points.)
4. I have not reinstalled the AS edition
5. in other situations (running uptime, it is completly random)    

Actual Results:  sometime it works and sometimes it stops with segmentation
faults all the way.

Expected Results:  I would expect to never get a seg fault from a binary like
uptime, I usually don't have problems with configure either.

Additional info:

system dose not crash. no cores are dumped.
sometimes outputs message (from configure script) that C compiler could not
create executables, but this is false, because I have created c and c++
executables on this same box, before and after this error message.
Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2003-08-08 08:19:12 UTC 
is there anything usefull in dmesg or the logs ?
Comment 2 Sam Gill 2003-08-11 04:47:33 UTC 
Created attachment 93561 [details]
says kernel bug at line 158 fault.c

output of /var/log/messages

sorry I didn't send this sooner, was checking email, not bugzilla.
never did this before, getting used to it :)
thanks,
 -sam
Comment 3 Sam Gill 2003-08-11 04:58:23 UTC 
Created attachment 93562 [details]
looked at the fault.c and realized that I didn't give enough info

looking at the fault.c code, it writes a printk() messages,
this messgage is exactly the same for all instances when it appears to crash.

keeps saying that "invalid kernel-mode pagefault 0! [addr:00000000,
eip:021389ef]"

I included the whole messages file for you, active since the computer has been
up for now 5 days. 

thanks,
 -sam.

ps happy to provide any more information that you request.
Comment 4 Arjan van de Ven 2003-08-11 13:03:18 UTC 
this looks like the fingerprint of a crash we already fixed; a fixed kernel is
available for the RHEL beta via RHN