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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx National Research Council of Canada (613) 990-0752 (FAX: 952-6602) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html