Context: - Booted with LiveCD 1.4_rc4 - Downloaded stage-2-x86-20040218 tarball - Followed all steps of gentoo install up to and including `emerge sync` Reproducible behaviour: 1. $ emerge portage 2. I get the following error: >>> Source unpacked. tbz2tool.c: In function `exists': tbz2tool.c:25: internal compiler error: Illegal instruction Please submit a full bug report, with preprocessed source if appropriate. See <URL:http://bugs.gentoo.org/> for instructions. Preprocessed source stored into /var/tmp/portage/portage-2.0.50-r1/temp/ccmuNXMn.out file, please attach this to your bugreport ./create-localdecls ... I'm in the install phase and don't have any tools with which I can move the preprocessed source file to this machine for copy pasting it into this bug report. Sorry about that. I tried emering ncftp & ftp to try to ftp is but emerging these programs also failed.
Illegal instructions in this case can be the result of defunct hardware. Please check your memory (memtest) and make sure you don't overclock your CPU. Check if the cooling mechanism for your system functions correctly. What optimization flags did you use? Using overagressive flags can cause this behaviour as well.
You're right about defunct hardware. Thanks! I did a memtest and got 638 errors in the upper region of my memory. I guess this bugreport is obsolete.
Okay, invalidating then.
