Bug 38277 – emerge grub fails during knoppix stage3 install

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO

[Description Ivo 2004-01-15 05:21:12 UTC]

When I try to emerge grub I get a segmentation fault.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge grub
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Knoppix / # emerge grub
Calculating dependencies ...done!
>>> emerge (1 of 1) sys-boot/grub-0.93.20030118 to /
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) grub-0.93.tar.gz
>>> md5 src_uri ;-) grub-0.93.20030118-gentoo.diff.bz2
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking grub-0.93.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/grub-0.93.20030118/work
>>> Unpacking grub-0.93.20030118-gentoo.diff.bz2 to
/var/tmp/portage/grub-0.93.20030118/work
 * Applying grub-0.93.20030118-gentoo.diff...                             [ ok ]
 * Applying grub-0.93-gcc3.3.diff...                                      [ ok ]
configure.in:17: warning: do not use m4_patsubst: use patsubst or m4_bpatsubst
configure.in:642: warning: do not use m4_regexp: use regexp or m4_bregexp
>>> Source unpacked.
configure: WARNING: If you wanted to set the --build type, don't use --host.
    If a cross compiler is detected then cross compile mode will be used.
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnu
checking whether to enable maintainer-specific portions of Makefiles... no
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... gcc
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc... (cached) gcc
checking for C compiler default output... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking dependency style of gcc... (cached) gcc3
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-ranlib... no
checking for ranlib... ranlib
sed: -e expression #2, char 11: Unterminated `s' command
checking whether optimization for size works... yes
checking whether -Wundef works... yes
checking whether -falign-loops works... no
checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-objcopy... no
checking for objcopy... objcopy
checking if C symbols get an underscore after compilation... no
checking whether objcopy works for absolute addresses... yes
checking whether addr32 must be in the same line as the instruction... yes
checking for .code16 addr32 assembler support... yes
checking whether an absolute indirect call/jump must not be prefixed with an
asterisk... no
checking if start is defined by the compiler... no
checking if _start is defined by the compiler... yes
checking if __bss_start is defined by the compiler... yes
checking if _edata is defined by the compiler... yes
checking if edata is defined by the compiler... yes
checking if end is defined by the compiler... yes
checking if _end is defined by the compiler... yes
checking for opendisk in -lutil... no
checking for wgetch in -lncurses... yes
checking how to run the C preprocessor... gcc -E
checking for egrep... grep -E
checking for ANSI C header files... yes
checking for sys/types.h... yes
checking for sys/stat.h... yes
checking for stdlib.h... yes
checking for string.h... yes
checking for memory.h... yes
checking for strings.h... yes
checking for inttypes.h... yes
checking for stdint.h... yes
checking for unistd.h... yes
checking for string.h... (cached) yes
checking for strings.h... (cached) yes
checking ncurses/curses.h usability... no
checking ncurses/curses.h presence... no
checking for ncurses/curses.h... no
checking ncurses.h usability... yes
checking ncurses.h presence... yes
checking for ncurses.h... yes
checking curses.h usability... yes
checking curses.h presence... yes
checking for curses.h... yes
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating stage1/Makefile
config.status: creating stage2/Makefile
config.status: creating docs/Makefile
config.status: creating lib/Makefile
config.status: creating util/Makefile
config.status: creating grub/Makefile
config.status: creating netboot/Makefile
config.status: creating util/grub-image
config.status: creating util/grub-install
config.status: creating util/grub-md5-crypt
config.status: creating util/grub-terminfo
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing default-1 commands
cd . \
  && CONFIG_FILES= CONFIG_HEADERS=config.h \
     /bin/sh ./config.status
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: config.h is unchanged
config.status: executing default-1 commands
make  all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/var/tmp/portage/grub-0.93.20030118/work/grub-0.93'
Making all in netboot
make[2]: Entering directory
`/var/tmp/portage/grub-0.93.20030118/work/grub-0.93/netboot'
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/grub-0.93.20030118/work/grub-0.93/netboot'
Making all in stage2
make[2]: Entering directory
`/var/tmp/portage/grub-0.93.20030118/work/grub-0.93/stage2'
gcc -Os -fno-builtin -nostdinc  -DSUPPORT_SERIAL=1 -DSUPPORT_HERCULES=1
-DSUPPORT_GRAPHICS=1 -DFSYS_EXT2FS=1 -DFSYS_FAT=1 -DFSYS_FFS=1 -DFSYS_MINIX=1
-DFSYS_REISERFS=1 -DFSYS_VSTAFS=1 -DFSYS_JFS=1 -DFSYS_XFS=1
-DUSE_MD5_PASSWORDS=1 -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../stage1 -Wall
-Wmissing-prototypes -Wunused -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -malign-jumps=1
-malign-loops=1 -malign-functions=1 -Wundef -g -c -o pre_stage2_exec-asm.o `test
-f 'asm.S' || echo './'`asm.S
source='bios.c' object='pre_stage2_exec-bios.o' libtool=no \
depfile='.deps/pre_stage2_exec-bios.Po'
tmpdepfile='.deps/pre_stage2_exec-bios.TPo' \
depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ../depcomp \
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../stage1  -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wunused -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -malign-jumps=1 -malign-loops=1
-malign-functions=1 -Wundef -Os -fno-builtin -nostdinc  -DSUPPORT_SERIAL=1
-DSUPPORT_HERCULES=1 -DSUPPORT_GRAPHICS=1 -DFSYS_EXT2FS=1 -DFSYS_FAT=1
-DFSYS_FFS=1 -DFSYS_MINIX=1 -DFSYS_REISERFS=1 -DFSYS_VSTAFS=1 -DFSYS_JFS=1
-DFSYS_XFS=1 -DUSE_MD5_PASSWORDS=1 -g -c -o pre_stage2_exec-bios.o `test -f
'bios.c' || echo './'`bios.c
source='boot.c' object='pre_stage2_exec-boot.o' libtool=no \
depfile='.deps/pre_stage2_exec-boot.Po'
tmpdepfile='.deps/pre_stage2_exec-boot.TPo' \
depmode=gcc3 /bin/sh ../depcomp \
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I../stage1  -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes
-Wunused -Wshadow -Wpointer-arith -malign-jumps=1 -malign-loops=1
-malign-functions=1 -Wundef -Os -fno-builtin -nostdinc  -DSUPPORT_SERIAL=1
-DSUPPORT_HERCULES=1 -DSUPPORT_GRAPHICS=1 -DFSYS_EXT2FS=1 -DFSYS_FAT=1
-DFSYS_FFS=1 -DFSYS_MINIX=1 -DFSYS_REISERFS=1 -DFSYS_VSTAFS=1 -DFSYS_JFS=1
-DFSYS_XFS=1 -DUSE_MD5_PASSWORDS=1 -g -c -o pre_stage2_exec-boot.o `test -f
'boot.c' || echo './'`boot.c
cc1: internal error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See <URL:http://bugs.gentoo.org/> for instructions.
make[2]: *** [pre_stage2_exec-bios.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
cc1: internal error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report,
with preprocessed source if appropriate.
See <URL:http://bugs.gentoo.org/> for instructions.
make[2]: *** [pre_stage2_exec-boot.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory
`/var/tmp/portage/grub-0.93.20030118/work/grub-0.93/stage2'
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/grub-0.93.20030118/work/grub-0.93'
make: *** [all] Error 2

!!! ERROR: sys-boot/grub-0.93.20030118 failed.
!!! Function src_compile, Line 64, Exitcode 2
!!! (no error message)

Knoppix / #

Expected Results:  
Compile grub and exit without error.

Portage 2.0.49-r4 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.21-xfs)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.21-xfs i686 Pentium III (Coppermine)
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS=""
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/share/config
/usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS=""
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 oss arts avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif gpm gtk2 imlib jpeg
libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pdflib png
quicktime sdl slang spell svga truetype X xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb readline
java tcpd pam ssl perl python -gtk -gnome qt kde dvd alsa apm"

[Comment 1 Robert Moss (RETIRED) 2004-07-08 19:41:29 UTC]

Can you confirm that this is still the case? I suspect the segfault is indicative of hardware errors rather than anything else.

[Comment 2 Ivo 2004-07-09 05:14:48 UTC]

Currently I'm not using Gentoo any more, so I cannot verify if the problem still exists.

[Comment 3 Robert Moss (RETIRED) 2004-07-11 23:00:23 UTC]

Okay - please change status to RESOLVED NEEDINFO.

[Comment 4 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2004-07-12 11:30:09 UTC]

please reopen if this is still the case