On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: >> Another shot in >> the dark, I had this weird message when trying to build gcc: >> semop(2): encountered an error: Identifier removed > > This came from the gcc build?
yes, very early in the build process, IIRC this line was repeated a few times and the build just stalled. > That's just crazy. No normal app uses sysv semaphores. I have an older > gcc build environment, and some grepping shows it has some ipc > semaphore use in the libstdc++ testsuite, and some libmudflap hooks, > but that should be very very minor. > I notice that your dmesg says that your kernel is compiled by > gcc-4.8.1 prerelease. Is there any chance that you could try to > install a known-stable gcc, like 4.7.2 or something. It's entirely > possible that it's a kernel bug even if it's triggered by some more > aggressive compiler optimization or something, but it would be really > good to try to see if this might be gcc-specific. I could build a kernel on another machine on which 4.7.2 is installed, kernel oops'd as well: http://i.imgur.com/uk6gmq1.jpg FWIW, I have a few things disabled in my config so here is the one I used, maybe I'm missing something (but again, everything works perfectly with your tree): https://gist.github.com/anonymous/5275566 Lastly, just FTR, I tried Andrew's 3.9-rc4-mm1 and got the same issues, unsurprisingly I guess. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/