Bug 29760

Summary:	genkernel "make bzImage" console.c illegal instruction
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Tim Baldwin <empireinfo623>
Component:	Everything	Assignee:	John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) <zhen>
Status:	RESOLVED CANTFIX
Severity:	major	CC:	cybersystem, mholzer
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Tim Baldwin 2003-09-27 11:27:14 UTC

while installing gentoo on my machine genkernel did not complete, there were error while apparently running "make bzImage", looking through the log, among other error (posted separately), there was the following:  gcc -D_KERNEL_ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r7/incluse -Wall -Wstrict-prototype -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i386 -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=cmd64x -c -o cmd64x.o cmd64x.c console.c: in function `screen_pos': console.c:2966: internal error: Illegal instruction ---text telling me to submit this bug report--- make [3]: ***[console.o] Error 1 make [3] leaving dir /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r7/drivers/char make [2]: ***[first_rule] Error 2 make [2] leaving dir /usr/src/linux-2.4.20-gentoo-r7/drivers/char make [1]: ***[_subdir_char] Error 2 make [1]: *** waiting for unfinished jobs

Comment 1 John Davis (zhen) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-10-22 20:40:09 UTC

errors such as yours usually point to hardware problems, such as bad RAM
or
overheating. Make sure your case is properly ventilated, and run memtest
on your
RAM (memtest is available on the most recent LiveCDs)