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
