fatal signal 11

[g.patel at wanadoo.fr]

On Sat, 10 Mar 2001 16:15:21 -0800, <cfk at pacbell.net> wrote:

>I downloaded the latest wine from the cvs site and ran its
>./tools/wineinstall. It ran for quite a while and croaked on
>/wine/server/semaphore.c. Basically, gcc says "Internal compiler error:
>program cc1 bog fatal signal 11". The compiler is 2.91.66 (aka egcs-1.1.2
>release) and compiles other programs including 2.4.1 & 2.4.2 Linux kernels
>just fine. I am puzzled what 'fatal signal 11' may mean. Can anyone offer a
>suggestion for a course of  investigation.

Signal 11 is segmentation error. There is a FAQ somewhere
about it IIRC. It boils down to hardware error most of the time.
It seems that gcc triggers these most of all software.

Gerard