From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-10smp i686) Description of problem: on a SMP machine, I did a make xconfig, then make dep, make clean, and then nohup make bzImage. make failed with message..... gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.7-10/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -Wno-unused -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -c -o defkeymap.o defkeymap.c gcc: Internal error: Segmentation fault (program as) Please submit a full bug report. See <URL:http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for instructions. make[3]: *** [defkeymap.o] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.7-10/drivers/char' make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.7-10/drivers/char' make[1]: *** [_subdir_char] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.7-10/drivers' make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce Steps to Reproduce: 1.make xconfig 2.make dep 3.make clean nohup make bzImage Actual Results: segmentation fault from gcc Expected Results: bzImage created successfully Additional info: only tried twice. First time segmentation fault. second time bzImage created
If it is not reproduceable, it means hardware fault. Try memtest86, if you have an athlon, try using i686 kernel, etc.