From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020710 Description of problem: On a vanilla Duron 1Ghz/512MB, RedHat v7.2 systems just freshly installed and "up2date" Building Python v2.2.1: gcc -c -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -I. -I./Include -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -o Objects/unicodeobject.o Objects/unicodeobject.c Objects/unicodeobject.c: In function `PyUnicodeUCS2_TranslateCharmap': Objects/unicodeobject.c:2737: Internal error: Segmentation fault. Please submit a full bug report. See <URL:http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/> for instructions. make: *** [Objects/unicodeobject.o] Error 1 Building TrueType 1 library - t1lib-1.3.1.tar.gz: gcc -c -g -O2 -DT1LIB_IDENT=\"1.3.1\" -DGLOBAL_CONFIG_DIR=\"/usr/local/share/t1lib\" -DT1LIB_NO_X11_SUPPORT -DT1_AA_TYPE16=short -DT1_AA_TYPE32=int token.c -o token.o >/dev/null 2>&1 make[2]: *** [token.lo] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jrimmer/stuff/Apachetoolbox-1.5.58/src/t1lib/lib/type1' make[1]: *** [type1_target] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jrimmer/stuff/Apachetoolbox-1.5.58/src/t1lib/lib' make: *** [XXXX] Error 1 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gcc-2.96 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install v7.2, run update2date to ensure completely patched/updated 2.Download Python v2.2.1 from python.org 3.Build Actual Results: GCC cored/segmentation faulted Expected Results: A happy build, e.g. no cores while building
If you get gcc segfaults when compiling almost everything, especially when it doesn't happen always on the same files same place when you retry, then you have faulty hardware.
I would tend to agree but I swapped out all the hardware 4 times and tried different combinations. While I thought it might still be the hardware I thought I would file a bug for documentations sake.