On Monday 14 July 2003 05:41 pm, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> Hi !!
>
> Hey, Cooker is alive again !! What happened ?
>
> To celebrate, a really serious bug ;).
>
> I am not able to boot a kernel compiled with gcc-3.3.1. First I tried
> with a heavily patched 2.4.22-pre4, and it crashed on boot.
> So I tried with plain 22-pre4, and then 22-pre2. All hang in the
> same way: kernel can not start /sbin/init. Previous gcc's compiled
> ok similar kernels (my -jam patchset...).
>
> If I boot with init=/bin/bash, I get the bash prompt (I am located at /).
> I can do a 'ls', it lists everything _twice_, and then hangs again.
> Somtimes I get a message like:
>
> NIT: version 2.85 booting
> INIT: Entering runlevel 5
>
> malloc: block on free list clobbered
> Stopping myself...Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
>
<snip>

Not only building a kernel is broken, also building other things,like the 
vmware interface.  I think this is a high priority item to be fixed.  It also 
breaks the 2.5 series of kernels, which are supposed to build ok under 
gcc3.3.

Paul Misner


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