From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EFB6p-0007Ts-4O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:46:03 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j8DDemXA009518; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:40:49 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8DDd4Hc011252 for ; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:39:05 GMT Received: from cpe-65-26-255-237.wi.res.rr.com ([65.26.255.237] helo=nightcrawler) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EFB4T-0007SP-Rt; Tue, 13 Sep 2005 13:43:37 +0000 Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 08:43:37 -0500 From: Brian Harring To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: spyderous@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug 80905 Message-ID: <20050913134337.GD7156@nightcrawler> References: <1126617879.5910.42.camel@localhost.localdomain> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="GPJrCs/72TxItFYR" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1126617879.5910.42.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: eb28c82b-a0b9-45d3-971c-5d94b804033d X-Archives-Hash: 1f15518eff31f99cf1c6e4c0e1ab6865 --GPJrCs/72TxItFYR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 03:24:38PM +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: > Hello, >=20 > this bug is from 2005-02-05. It was reported again (in this thread) > 2005-02-10. I hit the same behavior 2005-09-08. >=20 > internal compiler error: segmentation fault during emerge Xorg >=20 > The bug is simply reproducible (emerge Xorg) at the same line of code. >=20 > The bug is still marked as NEW. Donnie Berkholz replied 2005-02-10 with: > "Could you humor me and try with a vanilla kernel?" >=20 > My questions here: Does someone have a look at this? I think a not > installable Xorg is severe enough to mark it as CRITICAL. >=20 > Does someone know if it's worth a try with the vanilla and if vanilla > here means a really vanilla from kernel.org or if it's sufficient to get > the (too patched and thus not so vanilla) vanilla-sources. >=20 > Please be kind with me regarding to the fact that I'm posting here. On > the gentoo mailing list I get only replies like: "You probably have > faulty memory." If THIS would be the fact the bug would show up randomly > in different ebuilds or at least at different lines of code. Granted Donnie is a miserable so and so, but his advice is=20 accurate. To get an ICE (what you're getting) requires either 1) faulty hardware. proc going nuts, mem going nuts 2) faulty kernel 3) faulty toolchain Reproducability of a failure across reboots kind of indicates 1 as not=20 being the case, leaving 2, and 3. ICE's are pretty much *never* the fault of the source; the source may=20 expose a toolchain bug, but it's not the sources fault. =20 You don't blame an email for crashing your email client, you blame your=20 email client for horking up and segfaulting, instead of gracefully=20 failing in the face of potentially wrong input. Note I'm not stating the source is the fault here, just trying to=20 clarify that ICE's pretty much are indicative of=20 hardware/kernel/toolchain being nuts, not the source that's being=20 compiled. So... try his suggestion. Yes it's annoying, but frankly addressing=20 your issues here pretty much requires poking at the options above,=20 seeing if one of them makes compilation stop ICE'ing. If it does,=20 then you back track and figure out what changed... etc. ~harring --GPJrCs/72TxItFYR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDJteJvdBxRoA3VU0RAsZ+AJ0euR4oevQBpmwl11QebOnUT/D/6ACeLVVM yRHkgXR6FFJ4Fu63gbqWhc0= =QD54 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --GPJrCs/72TxItFYR-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list