On 10/28/07, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > David Hrbáč wrote: > > Akemi Yagi napsal(a): > >> Change *all* signmodules to zero as a workround. > >> > >> %define signmodules 0 > >> > >> It would go through then. Or else, build in mock. According to > >> Johnny, the modsign problem does not occur in mock. > >> > >> Akemi > > > > OK, thanks. > > D. > > I specifically do have that exact same problem when building the kernel > in vmware. When I build the kernels inside mock I do not seem to have > the problem, but my mock machine is not in VMware, so I am not sure > whether it is a problem with VMware or not. > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes This particular problem has been known for a while, at least since FC6, and reported in: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=213974 As noted in that report (right after Johnny's comment), I suspect it shares the same root cause as another bug #246623 filed for Fedora. In the latter bug report, someone tracked it down to a bug in linux-2.6-execshield.patch (kernel) and provided a fix. To find out if that fix cures the modsign problem as well, I first built a c5 i686 kernel in a vmware guest and made sure it ended up with a segfault. Then I applied the fix and tried again. This time the rebuild finished without any issue. Testing it only once may not give us anything conclusive, but it is a good start. Anyway, I would like to add this observation to the above bug report. In the meantime if this is tested by more people, it will be helpful. David, could you try it? (I know you are already overloaded :-) Akemi