Bug 47931 – segmentation fault on emergeing kde/arts.

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED CANTFIX

[Description Julian Clark 2004-04-15 09:12:16 UTC]

While emerging kde.
Gets part way through compiling, then crashes.
I ran emerge --fetchonly kdebase
then emerge kdebase

At some point there appears to be a segmentation fault (on one occaision the system hung instead of rebooting)

While it had hung, I couldn't switch to another terminal.
I had to hit the power switch :(



Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Bootstrapped the system pretty much following the quick setup guide.
2. logged in as root.
3. emerge kdebase

Actual Results:  
System rebooted (dirty & nasty reboot too) part-way through compiling.

Expected Results:  
installed a nice window manager.
Instead I'm stuck with TWM.

Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13
Portage 2.0.50-r5 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.25-
gentoo)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.25-gentoo i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.00GHz
Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1
Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/
share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=i686 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="rsync://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com 
http://gentoo.ccccom.com ftp://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/Gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dga encode foomaticdb gdbm gif 
gpm gtk2 icq imlib jabber jpeg kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mpeg 
msn ncurses nls offensive oggvorbis opengl oscar oss pam pdflib perl png 
python qt quicktime readline sdl slang spell ssl svga tcpd truetype x86 xml2 
xmms xv zlib"


System specs 
Celeron 2Ghz - Board at 133 Mhz => Processor running at 2.6Ghz.
Nvidia GeForce MX440 SE video card.
Shuttle AV49n motherboard.
256Mb Ram
80Gb Seagate HDD (HDA)
120Gb WD HDD      (HDB)
Shitty mouse /monitor/keyboard

FIlesystems setup as 
HDA1 ext3    64M
HDA2 swap    512M
HDA3 reiserfs 10G

[Comment 1 Julian Clark 2004-04-15 09:13:37 UTC]

Created attachment 29346 [details]
emerge kdebase | tee output.log

This is the output from the compiler.

Cheers,

Julian

[Comment 2 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2004-04-15 11:04:11 UTC]

This indicates a hardware problem.  Probably your processor is getting too hot.

[Comment 3 Julian Clark 2004-04-15 16:41:12 UTC]

Thanks for that. 
I've reset my processor to 2GHz and am re-compiling now.

I'll post back with my results (which hopefully should be good)

Cheers,

Julian

[Comment 4 Julian Clark 2004-04-15 22:57:42 UTC]

I Reset my processor to 2GHz (no longer overclocked) it's still happening.
According to the Bios, my processor (within 20 seconds of a reboot) is sitting at 43 degrees c. I'm not certain that it is an overheating issue.

This was the last of the text on screen when it last hung.

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address d0000000
printing eip:
c0235800
*pde = 00000000

I've attached the output again

[Comment 5 Julian Clark 2004-04-15 22:58:38 UTC]

Created attachment 29397 [details]
emerge kde | tee stdout.log

[Comment 6 Julian Clark 2004-04-16 20:47:46 UTC]

I've changed the memory command rate in the BIOS, and the System no-longer hangs on this error. It still produces an error :(

It seems that this error occurs when I'm emerging anything that requires 
qt-3.3.0-r1

The same error also occured when I tried emerge arts.
It will now exit after a segmentation fault. Atleast it exits a litle nicer now :)

[Comment 7 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2004-04-26 11:24:44 UTC]

Qt is a very intense package to build.  Still seems like you're having local hardware problems, though.

[Comment 8 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2004-05-26 08:42:53 UTC]

sounds like a local issue - don't think we can help out on this one.