Hi Michael et al,
On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 7:52 PM Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2/02/23 05:38, Stan Johnson wrote:
On 1/30/23 8:05 PM, Michael Schmitz wrote:
...
Am 30.01.2023 um 17:00 schrieb Stan Johnson:
I am seeing anywhere from zero to four of the following errors while
booting Linux on 68030 systems and using sysvinit startup scripts:
*** stack smashing detected ***: terminated
Aborted
I usually (but not always) see three of the errors while init is running
the rcS.d scripts, and one while running the rc2.d scripts. The stack
smashing messages appear only on the system console (nothing is logged
in an error log or dmesg). Despite the errors, the system continues
booting to multiuser mode without any obvious additional problems. I
haven't tested systemd, which is too slow to be useful on my m68k
systems (though I have a Debian SID with systemd that I can restore for
testing if necessary).
...
Another way may be logging the start of each of the rcS.d or rc2.d
scripts until you know what scripts to look at in more detail, then
adding 'set -v' at the start of those to log every command in the
offending script.
Hi Michael,
Thanks for your reply.
After logging the start and end of each script, I see that the "stack
smashing detected" error often happens while running
"/etc/rcS.d/S01mountkernfs.sh" (/etc/init.d/mountkernfs.sh). I'll try to
isolate it to a particular command.
This may be a coincidence, but the error seems to happen (up to about 4
times) after a warm boot into Mac OS 7.5.5 and a subsequent boot into
Linux that when starting with a cold boot into Mac OS 7.5.5, but it
doesn't seem that that should make any difference for Linux. This
morning, after a cold boot, I saw two of the errors, while after a warm
boot, I saw four.
Hmm - that might well indicate a hardware issue rather than software.
Bits flipping at random in RAM (and getting picked up because the stack
canary changes).
You can enable extra debugging options in the kernel, which might help
detecting memory corruption, like CONFIG_DEBUG_LIST and DEBUG_SLAB.
It will slow down your kernel, and make it grow too large, though.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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