On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 05:21:27PM +0000, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2006-03-17 17:02]: > > Chances are this is caused by the return value of some syscall. Can you > > use strace on a shell to isolate it? > > I tried, but I don't know how. "strace echo *" immediately gives a > "bad address" because the wildcard is evaluated before strace is > invoked. How can I call strace in this case? Log into a second shell from another tty, find out the PID of the first shell. Then do an strace -ff -v -p <PID of first shell> in the second shell, go back to the first shell and do your echo *. You now should have the interesting bits of the log in the second window. > > Is this 32-bit software on a 64-bit kernel? There remain corner cases to be fixed in that emulation layer even though it's good enough for general use since a long time. Ralf
