Re: Porting man-db to Hurd
On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 06:40:22PM +0200, Wolfgang Jährling wrote:
> Wolfgang Jährling <wolfgang@pro-linux.de> wrote:
> > Grant Bowman <grantbow@grantbow.com> wrote:
> > > [machine freeze-up]
> >
> > Funny, I tried it and got a segmentation fault instead of a freeze. I'll
> > look into it in more detail later.
>
> It seems I did something wrong last time. But this time, I got the
> expected behaviour: The program just hung. "ps" told me that it's
> sleeping, so obviously memset() got tired, see this full backtrace:
>
> ----- snip! -----
> (gdb) bt full
> #0 0x010c67a1 in memset () from /lib/libc.so.0.3
> No symbol table info available.
> #1 0x011a108b in __bam_read_root () from /lib/libdb2.so.2
> No symbol table info available.
> #2 0x011a0e61 in __bam_open () from /lib/libdb2.so.2
> No symbol table info available.
That looks remarkably like #111288/#139962 in libdb2, although it's
previously only been reported on sparc.
If anybody cares to try to debug that, I'm sure Matthew would appreciate
it - I don't have the skills to dig into db2. For what it's worth,
man-db will be switching to libdb3 soon anyway.
> Doesn't look like mandb is doing anything wrong here.
I agree - or, at least, if it is, nobody has managed to point out
exactly what yet! :)
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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