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From: John David Anglin <dave@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca>
To: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.38-rc3 regression on parisc: segfaults
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 10:07:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110204150703.GA9254@hiauly1.hia.nrc.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.SOC.1.00.1102041150390.8218@math.ut.ee>

On Fri, 04 Feb 2011, Meelis Roos wrote:

> 2363  clone( <unfinished ...>
> 2349  <... futex resumed> )             = 1
> 2363  <... clone resumed> child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x460df4a8) = 2372
> 2349  --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
> 2372  rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {SIG_DFL, [], SA_RESTART},  <unfinished ...>
> 2349  write(1, "\33[56;1H\33[34h\33[?25h", 18 <unfinished ...>
> 
> Something futex-related. Full log temprarilty available at 
> http://www.cs.ut.ee/~mroos/aptitude-strace.txt

This is possibly the infamous COW bug.

> gdb does not seem to work well:

I think the segv is in the dynamic loader.  Try gdb on dynamic loader
and aptitude as run argument.  Also suggest adding /usr/lib/debug to
LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

Dave
-- 
J. David Anglin                                  dave.anglin@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
National Research Council of Canada              (613) 990-0752 (FAX: 952-6602)

  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-04 15:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-01 22:00 Meelis Roos
2011-02-01 22:12 ` James Bottomley
2011-02-03 22:36   ` Meelis Roos
2011-02-01 22:16 ` Carlos O'Donell
2011-02-03  2:24 ` John David Anglin
2011-02-03  7:03   ` Meelis Roos
2011-02-04 10:11   ` Meelis Roos
2011-02-04 15:07     ` John David Anglin [this message]
2011-02-04 15:20       ` Carlos O'Donell
2011-02-04 16:17         ` John David Anglin

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