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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2010 11:38:33 +0200

> It seems to happen with ld as well btw (not sure this is related
> though):
> 
> [ 3366.005962] ld[19041]: segfault at 10 ip 000000007010248c (rpc 00000000701023f8) sp 00000000ffda87c8 error 30001 
> in libbfd-2.18.0.20080103.so[700d8000+a0000]

It's data corruption coming either from the kernel or something
malfunctioning in libc is my guess, more likely the kernel.