I moved from redhat 5.2 to 6.0 and found that I get following error message: gcc -DLINUX_RH -D_POSIX_SOURCE -I. -I../linux -I../generic -I../../../header/linux_rh_60 -I../../../header/linux -I../../../header/generic -I../../../../../share/linux_rh_60/tps/header -DCLIENT_BUILD -DDUMB_CLIENT -DSVR4 -D_REENTRANT -D_BSD_SOURCE -c ../generic/error.c -o error.o . . . ar cq libcscomm.a authorize_client_rpc.o connect_to_rpc_service_rpc.o login_rpc.o utils_rpc.o get_handle_rpc.o bind_tcp_port_rpc.o get_tcp_ports_rpc.o register_interface_rpc.o clnt_async.o svc_async.o csc_socket.o char_descriptor.o error.o csc_platform_utils.o port_management.o BFD: error.o: invalid string offset 6912 >= 99 for section `.shstrtab' BFD: error.o: invalid string offset 8448 >= 99 for section `.shstrtab' BFD: error.o: invalid string offset 11008 >= 99 for section `.shstrtab' . . . gcc -o epcommd procedure.o server.o epcommd.o getmount.o parsemnt.o esl_directory.o direntries.o epcplatform.o rpcsvc.o cluster.o -L. -L../../../../local_lib/linux_rh_60 -L../../../../../../share/linux_rh_60/esl/lib -L. -L../../../../csc/fbrowser -Bstatic -lepcomm_api -lepcomm_svc -lcscomm -lcsc_config_clnt -lcsc_common_clnt -llogging -lesl_utils_c -leerrno collect2: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault], core dumped /usr/bin/ld: error.o: invalid string offset 6912 >= 99 for section `.shstrtab' /usr/bin/ld: error.o: invalid string offset 8448 >= 99 for section `.shstrtab' /usr/bin/ld: error.o: invalid string offset 11008 >= 99 for section `.shstrtab' . . . The same code if compiled on redhat 5.2 will work fine without any problem. On 6.0 I first loaded egcs-1.1.2-12 & egcs-c++-1.1.2-12. On seeing the above problem I then moved to egcs-1.1.2-30 & egcs-c++-1.1.2-30. But this also did not fix the problem. On a side note very few times the compilation does go fine without any problem. It seems to me that most of the time error.o object in not generated correctly. I did cmp -l on bad error.o and good error.o and found that at that difference is of one additional byte. See below: jain1 66> cmp -l linux_rh_60.bad/error.o linux_rh_60.good/error.o 7845 0 33 7846 33 0 7849 0 1 7850 1 0 7853 0 6 7854 6 0 7861 0 100 7862 100 0 7865 0 262 7866 262 6 7867 6 0 7877 0 20 . . Please help as I cannot proceed further. Thanks....
This definitely is not compiler issue (error.o is created by assembler), but it looks like either hardware problem (most probably) or some kernel corruption issue. I'd suggest you try it on some other hardware or try some newer kernel (such as from 6.2 distribution).
I have the same machine running 5.2 and 6.0. On 5.2 it compiles perfect. Hence it cannot be a hardware problem. As far as your suggestion to put 6.2 kernel on 6.0 operating system, I am not sure whether it is really desirable for following reasons: 1. I want to create my application on 6.0 only so that I can support it for 6.0/6.1/6.2/7.0. I am not sure that after putting 6.2 kernel I would be able to support 6.0 and 6.1. 2. I see another bug# 5853 reported the similar problem. 3. I installed the 6.0 kernel out of the CDROM provided by redhat. I am sure that this kernel is not buggy. Let me know your thoughts. Please give your highest priority to resolve this issue.
I tried on another machine but it gives me the same problem. Please help!!
If you are still able to reproduce this with some current distribution (FC2 or FC3t2), please reopen.