Hello! > any chance to get a coredump ? Been there... ld-linux in glibc-2.3.2 is broken: it does not understand relocatable VDSO. If vsyscall-sysenter.so is not absolute, which is the case with exec-shield patch, it dereferences not-relocated pointers in .dynamic and segfaults. BTW original Gerd Hoffman's patch as submitted by Rusty works with libc-2.3.2, it generates good absolute VDSO. Alexey