When I emerge system, I get a segfault after all the building is done and it starts the actual merging. After the segfault I can no longer run any more commands, but I can still type in all VT's. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Emerge system or 1a. emerge procps 1b. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge procps Actual Results: >>> Merging sys-apps/procps-3.2.0 to / --- /bin/ >>> /bin/ps kernel BUG at namei.c:1125 invalid operand: 0000 tulip floppy serial isa-pnp cloop usb-storage hid uhci usbcore CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c017ba18>] Tainted: GF EFLAGS: 00010297 eax: 00000000 ebx: ffffffff ecx: cdb11e58 edx: 00000000 esi: cdb11d18 edi: cdb11df8 ebp: cdb11dd8 esp: cdb11c78 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process emerge (pid: 1453, stackpage=cdb11000) Stack: (insert hex here, will post if necessary) Call Trace: More Hex in [<hexhere>] format. Code: 0f 0b 65 04 01 a4 2f c0 8b 84 24 e0 01 00 00 8b 94 c4 e4 01 Segmentation fault Expected Results: Procps should merge, and I should continue with a flawless :-D emerge system. I use webrsync. Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13 Portage 2.0.50-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.21-gss) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.21-gss i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.58-r1 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.7.7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share$ CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -fprefetch-loop-arrays -funroll-loops -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="apm arts avi berkdb crypt cups encode foomaticdb gdbm gif gpm gtk2 imlib j$
your kernel is quite old could you upgrade and try again ?
Used wrong stage tarball.