webmin is killing rawhide

[Yanko Kaneti]

On Sat, 2008-06-14 at 07:15 -0700, David Mack wrote:
> I'm trying to install webmin-1.420 on my Rawhide box from an RPM:
> 
> # rpm -ihv webmin-1.420-1.noarch.rpm
> Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
> Operating system is Redhat Linux
>    1:webmin                 Segmentation fault#######                   ( 58%)
> 
> After this segfault, the machine instantly becomes unusable. Commands
> issued in a shell don't complete and can't be killed. Menu pulldowns
> don't. Attempts to switch to a vty fail. CTL-Alt-Del does nothing.
> Ctl-Alt-BS clears the desktop but it eventually gets redrawn. A
> running xload window shows the loadavg heading for the troposphere but
> I can't get a process list. The only solution I've found to date is to
> powercycle the machine.
> 
> Kernel is 2.6.26-0.64.rc5.git7.fc10.i686.
> 
> Installing the same webmin rpm works perfectly on an F9 box.
> 
> Suggestions for debugging this would be welcome.

Its not webmin but the kernel crashing due to being miscompiled by the
new gcc 4.3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451068
"ext3: oops in do_split, miscompilation with gcc 4.3.1"

All kernels past 2.6.26-0.56.rc5.git2 affected.