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That sounds very strange. Honestly I wouldn't be quick to judge in this case; your issue could be caused by a recurring transit problem that just didn't happen this time, and could happen again later. The compilation machines I personally use are all remote machines and I just connect to them via SSH, so the problem is certainly not from remote connections.
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Agreed; there is probably something else about your system that changed. Have you tried rebooting the machine and then building the kernel with and without the ethernet plugged in? If I were you, I would try to write down anything I've done to the machine that may or may not have made the tools work in case whatever change you made is only temporary (and will get undone upon reboot).
I asked earlier but do you have a lot of free disk space on the drive you're building on? If you've been running out of room on your hard drive during builds that would explain the seemingly random crashes (b/c the tool can't create files it needs to).
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