On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:15:35AM +0500, James Leigh wrote: > I do not have as much trouble compiling programs, but real trouble > compiling a kernel. This is the error I always get. It seems that it > returns the error for almost every f*n *.c file in there, one after > another. Some of then take over fifty times running make bzImage before > the process moves on. > cc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11 > > By running the command that it barfed on, some times it too returns the > same error, other times it successed.
Almost certainly, this is bad hardware - either bad RAM or an overclocked CPU. (I wouldn't rule out bad hard drive either - do an fsck -c). This seems like the problem also because it is random - sometimes it is an error, other times not. Check http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ for more information.
