From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale) Subject: Re: lib43 causes core dumps and logouts Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 21:01:39 GMT
In article <1993Feb22.003511.146@victrola.sea.wa.us> vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) writes:
>I've recently upgraded to the 4.3 libs so I could run
>xfree1.2 and have noticed that bash is blasting me off
>the system periodically with core dumps.
>
>this MUST be from the libs since that's all I've changed
>and I saw none of this fun before with 0.99-4 and the
>4.2 libs...
>
>the core dumps are happening in VC's in bash...
Sigh. Yes, there is apparently a problem with libc.4.3 *somewhere*. I
have seen make dump core when doing a "make clean". Right now I do not have a
terribly good idea where the problem is, but I will spend some time tonight to
try and isolate it. Currently I suspect the signal handling code.
In the case of make, it is an intermittent problem. Sometimes it dumps core,
and sometimes it does not.
If anyone has any sure fire ways of getting bash, make, or anything
else to dump core that shouldn't, please pass them on to me. The simpler the
test program, the easier it will be to narrow down. I would be especially
interested in knowing if a recompiled bash/make/init/etc has the same problem,
and if it does, would a staticly linked version of the same program also have
the same problem?? I have some other things I would like to try first.
-Eric
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