Ok, Im in Chapter 6 and just finished installing Glibc 2.3.1
Eveything is perfect so far but when I do

make localedata/install-locales && ( it takes a while )

exec /static/bin/bash --login <---this thing crash it hard so I am out of chroot really fast..

When I try to chroot back as explained in Entering the chroot environment it segfaults again, so I am unable to proceed.

Bash is 2.05b, gcc is 3.2.1 and glibc is 2.3.1

What can I do?

My guess would be that your static version of bash was not configured properly or did not compile properly. Try recompiling the static version of bash and pay very close attention to the options and any prerequisites (i.e. the curses and ncurses libraries mentioned immediately before you compile bash).

As a personal preference, when I recompile software that gives me trouble, I delete its source tree (i.e. "rm -rf bash-2.05b"). Then I replace it by untar-ing the source from the packages again. It's not really necessary, but gives me a nice, warm, and fuzzy feeling.

IT didnt want to compile because it didnt find curses so I reconfigured and omitted --with-curses. It worked.
I dont believe that could cause problems.
Should I upgrade ncurses on My Slackware 8.1???

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As a personal preference, when I recompile software that gives me trouble, I delete its source tree (i.e. "rm -rf bash-2.05b"). Then I replace it by untar-ing the source from the packages again. It's not really necessary, but gives me a nice, warm, and fuzzy feeling.

True, true, I do the same.

Well, two disclaimers first:

1) I've never tried compiling bash without the ncurses library
2) I've never had problems compiling bash with the exception of having to specify the system type for the configure scipt

In other words, any information following this should be prefaced with "I'm no expert, but this might work..."

To be honest, I don't exactly know what the ncurses library is used for. Removing it may leave bash lacking some functionality that LFS requires later down the road. That being my paranoid stance, I'd try to upgrade ncurses. I don't know what version LFS wants or what slackware comes bundled with, but since revision 4.0 of the LFS book was released within a month or two, I think it's safe to assume they were using a relatively recent version of the library.

Hmm, I guess Bash really needed curses.. compiled ncurses 5.3 ( on Slack 8.1 default is 5.2 ) and recompiled Bash with curses flag and now I can chroot normally

Glad to hear it worked. I wish I could have given an exact explanation... Always something else to learn.