From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: The bad stuff starts with: dev.c: In function 'dev_getbyhwaddr' dev.c:546: Internal Error. Segmentation fault. Encountered this while making a kernel with source 2.4.16 "make bzImage" will halt in the above dir Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run 'make xconfig', turned on option for "development and/or incomplete code/drivers", config as attached file small.txt 2.do a 'make dep' - no errors 3.do a 'make clean' 4.do a 'time make bzImage' Actual Results: 4.5 minutes into 'time make bzImage' --> Segmentation fault Expected Results: Expected the kernel to finish compile Additional info: This is on a machine running whatever kernel ships with Redhat 7.2 The machine is an Intel Celeron @550, on an ASUS CUSI-FX mobo w/512M physical RAM, 8K shared for VGA in bios.
Created attachment 41167 [details] custom kernel make config file
I cannot seem to repro this anymore. Less aggressive memory timings in my machine's bios settings make this problem vanish. Sorry for the wasted bandwidth. Splat. -Greg