Sendmail: Unaligned Trap

[Janina Sajka <janina@rednote.net>]

For some reason I have so far been unable to pin down, I'm suddenly bombarded by errors from sendmail, all variations of the form:

sendmail(16779): unaligned trap at 000000012006b214: 000002000001a014 29 0

This is on a Avanti (AS200) with Woody, and now since Friday last with Sarge.

Fuinding nothing of much value on the subject via Google, I thought I'd try recompiling locally, but that generated a different problem as below.

Any advice -- either for the error or how to manage a recompile -- most appreciated.

Here's what I get from:

apt-get -b source sendmail


# unpack and patch source
/usr/bin/make -f ./debian/scripts/dbs-build.mk \
BUILD_TREE="build-tree/sendmail-8.12.11" TAR_DIR="sendmail-8.12.11" \
        STAMP_DIR="./debian/build/stampdir"   PATCH_DIR="./debian/patches/8.12/8.12.11" \
        SCRIPT_DIR="./debian/scripts" \
        ./debian/build/stampdir/unpack ./debian/build/stampdir/patch;
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/isos/sendmail-8.12.11.Final'
test -d ./debian/build/stampdir || mkdir ./debian/build/stampdir
touch ./debian/build/stampdir/created
mkdir -p ./debian/build/stampdir/sources build-tree ./debian/build/stampdir/log/sources
Extracting source sendmail.8.12.11.tar.gz ... failed!
make[1]: *** [debian/build/stampdir/unpack] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/isos/sendmail-8.12.11.Final'
make: *** [debian/build/stampdir/setup] Error 2
Build command 'cd sendmail-8.12.11.Final && dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc' failed.
E: Child process failed