From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; Q312461) Description of problem: When compiling the kernel I get a "segmentation fault" very early during compilation and it's the exact same place each time, namely during processing of line 1161 of kernel/module.c Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. make bzImage 2. wait 3. error occurs Actual Results: The segementation I explaned above Expected Results: Successful compilation - I've compiled kernels many many times before Additional info: I've created a module.i file with error information. I just don't know where to submit it. (I just saw that attaching files is possible after submission - I will do this after submitting this report).
Created attachment 50224 [details] File created by gcc (with -save-temps) option
Please specify exact options you passed to gcc to reproduce this too.
The error occurs when compiling the kernel using the standard script (I simply typed "make bzImage"). When I produced the "module.i"-file, I copy & pasted the failing command line and added the "-save-temps" switch. I'm starting to think that this is a problem with my system, because I get the same error when compiling the kernel in another linux distribution. But I wonder why the error occurs the exact same place everytime. I've tried memtest86 and it doesn't report an error. A friend of mine says he has experienced this problem too but fixed it through BIOS tweaking. I will get back with more details as soon as I have them.