From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5 i686) Description of problem: I decided to compile a kernel on my own and got the kernel sources for 2.4.5. I left them unpatched and configured the kernel. The current bug I want to report is the following: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.5/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=k6 -c -o do_balan.o do_balan.c do_balan.c: In function `balance_leaf_when_delete': do_balan.c:334: Internal error: Segmentation fault. 1. Reproduction shows another source file is producing errors as well: gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.5/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=k6 -c -o tcp.o tcp.c tcp.c: In function `tcp_destroy_sock': tcp.c:1812: Internal error: Segmentation fault. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.make dep clean bZimage modules modules_install 2. 3. Actual Results: Each time the kernel compilation won4t finish, but it looks like it4s a random file each time I call make Expected Results: kernel compilation should have completed Additional info: I had some strange experiences with kernel panics when i was copying large files to or from the machine. The processes that made the kernel crash were either ssh (from scp) or smbd. I rechecked the integrity of gcc by downloading the apropriate rpm, and did a rpm --verify gcc-2.96.81 && echo OK I received an "OK" so I guess the compiler is still integer.
If it is each time on a different file, then I'd suggest you replacing your hardware. Compiler is a deterministic program, compiler faults are reproducible at each invocation with the same options on the same input.