Frequent, unpredicable Seq Faults were occurring with ebuilds on my machine using gs_sources-2.4.22_pre2 kernel. Suspecting hardware extensive and lengthy investigations and corrections were made to hard drives, power supply, RAM boards, and BIOS without relief. The problem persisted after a complete system reinstall with te same kernel version. Upon changing the kernel to either vanilla-2.4.24 or development-sources-2.6.1 the Seq Faults were completely relieved and never seen again, even after a . Moral: Seg Faults may be an indication that the kernel is bad, not the hardware. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Machine is a AMD Athlon MP 2200 SMP, with IWill MPX2 motherboard, 2 Gig RAM and IBM 64 GB EIDE hard disk.
1) What do you mean by a segfault? Try running things under strace and tell us whether it randomly dies out of nowhere, or due to a software / library error. 2) Can you please attach your .config? 3) 2.4.22 is no longer in Portage - can you try out the 2.4.23 versions, or preferably the 2.4.25 versions and see if those give you the same problem?
Created attachment 25273 [details] .config linux kernel configuration file.
I regret that I will only be able to comply with 1 of the 3 requests since I have had to rebuild the machine and Seg Faults no longer occur. The old .config is attached. Seg Fault means the compiler complains, "Segmentation Fault. Please submit a bug report to ..." At some point I may have an opportunity to try the other kernels but the machine has a business use currently. I'll get back to you when I can do this.
old bug, reopen if necessary
