thanks Chris, so Bug#204615 and Bug#205548 have a similar backtrace
openoffice.org ====== 205548 ====== Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. #0 0x7006157c in bfd_elf64_archive_write_armap () from /usr/lib/libbfd- 2.14.90.0.5.so #1 0x7006c9b4 in bfd_elf32_bfd_final_link () from /usr/lib/libbfd- 2.14.90.0.5.so #2 0x7004e384 in bfd_hash_traverse () from /usr/lib/libbfd-2.14.90.0.5.so ====== 204615 ====== ld segfaults while linking the kernel 2.6.0-test2 on linux/alpha. backtrace: #0 0x000002000006d608 in bfd_elf64_archive_write_armap () from /usr/lib/libbfd- 2.14.90.0.5.so #1 0x00000200000569b0 in bfd_hash_traverse () from /usr/lib/libbfd- 2.14.90.0.5.so #2 0x00000200000572a8 in bfd_link_hash_traverse () from /usr/lib/libbfd- 2.14.90.0.5.so