On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:01 AM, roland <roland@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:05:57 +0100, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt@xxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > >> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:04:08 +0100, roland wrote: >> >>> Hello everybody, >>> >>> First of all, my best wishes for 2009. May all the problems you couldn't >>> solve in 2008, find a solution in 2009. Good health, loving children, >>> many friends. >>> >>> Now my problem: >>> ' >>> when I type t >>> ar' I get a 'segmentation error' >>> I thought, maybe there is an error in tar, so I copied it from another >>> installation. Same error. >>> >>> Does it sound familiar to somebody? >> >> Follow the instructions at >> >> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces >> >> and then post the detailed backtrace here. "tar" uses several >> libraries. It can be anything, even unstable hardware (such as bad RAM >> chips). >> > > This is the output I get: > > [root@tbred roland]# gdb /bin/tar > GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.159.el4rh) > Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are > welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain > conditions. > Type "show copying" to see the conditions. > There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. > This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"... > (no debugging symbols found) > Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1". > > (gdb) run --cvzf buXXX b* > Starting program: /bin/tar --cvzf buXXX b* > (no debugging symbols found) > (no debugging symbols found) > > Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. > 0x0806d4e6 in ?? () > (gdb) Quit > (gdb) > > > I do not see much of a story here. I hope you do. Run: debuginfo-install tar and repeat poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines