| Hi Holger,
These binaries are segfaulting on the physical host itself. The host just runs some vm's too. top,w,exim are all fine on the vms themselves. On 16 Dec 2010, at 12:30, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report
which was filed against the general package:
#607256: general: various programs generate segfaults, like top, w and exim
It has been closed by Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>.
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Date: 16 December 2010 12:26:51 GMT
Subject: Re: Bug#607256: general: various programs generate segfaults, like top, w and exim
Hi Robert,
thanks for filing a bug report and sorry for immediatly closing it...
On Donnerstag, 16. Dezember 2010, Ian Roberts wrote:
Package: general
Severity: serious
Justification: 1
[...]
Top, w and exim are programs that generate segfaults.
[...]
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
[...]
I have yet to try and reboot the system. But this is very worriying for
me. Them machine runs vmware, all vms are up and running.
because it really has too little information to debug this. Also this happens
in a virtual machine running on the propietary vmware software. I'd guess
that it might be related to that, maybe vmware doesnt cope well with 8 cores,
or with 8 cores and the outdated 2.6.30 kernel, I dunno.
But I do know that usually those tools you mentioned dont segfault and if they
do, that usually indicates a hardware problem. And since "your hardware" is
propietary software, I'm closing this bug.
cheers,
Holger
Date: 16 December 2010 09:44:06 GMT
Subject: general: various programs generate segfaults, like top, w and exim
Package: general
Severity: serious
Justification: 1
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Top, w and exim are programs that generate segfaults.
[17962891.960308] exim[9003]: segfault at 7fffd60d72c4 ip 000000000041e95c sp 00007fffd60d7290 error 6 in exim4[400000+c8000]
[18093448.036060] hpet1: lost 1 rtc interrupts
[18093481.029965] hpet1: lost 1 rtc interrupts
[18115321.128571] top[17527]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00000000ffbc2c44 error 14 in top[8048000+80000]
[18115324.494047] top[17528]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00000000ffc205c4 error 14 in top[8048000+80000]
[18115344.797938] top[17538]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00000000ffbe97c4 error 14 in top[8048000+80000]
[18115461.273407] top[17605]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00000000ffc04c74 error 14 in top[8048000+80000]
[18115772.224782] w[17936]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00000000ff860a54 error 14 in w[8048000+73000]
[18115774.495840] top[17937]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00000000ffb236f4 error 14 in top[8048000+80000]
[18116155.297127] top[18294]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00000000ffe5c844 error 14 in top[8048000+80000]
I have yet to try and reboot the system. But this is very worriying for me. Them machine runs vmware, all vms are up and
running.
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