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Re: ulogd unaligned trap



On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 05:44:39PM -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 12:49:04AM +0000, Carlos Rodrigues wrote:
> > On 1/24/06, Jay Estabrook <Jay.Estabrook@hp.com> wrote:
> > > I think you can use "ldd /wherever/you/find/ulogd" to print the
> > > libraries used by "ulogd" and where they are relocated to; that should
> > > at least give the library the unaligned accesses come from...

> > Ok, so here it is...

> > ulisses:~# ldd /usr/sbin/ulogd
> >         libdl.so.2.1 => /lib/libdl.so.2.1 (0x0000020000038000)
> >         libc.so.6.1 => /lib/libc.so.6.1 (0x000002000004c000)
> >         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x0000020000000000)

> > Not much there. So, it seems that those addresses belong to something
> > related to glibc.

> > Any ideas how I can trace this down? One of the machines isn't on
> > production, so I can try to see exactly where these messages are
> > triggered. However, I don't exactly see how to do this using
> > ltrace/strace... (since the messages are generated by the kernel).

> http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2005/08/msg00051.html

> It might be nice if someone would be willing to take this code and merge it
> with the existing prctl package (currently ia64-only).

So it turns out prctl builds just fine on alpha (prctl prototype is exposed
by linux/prctl.h with all the right defines), it just doesn't run because
the prctl() syscall on alpha is completely useless.  w00t!  Off to bug the
kernel folks...

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
vorlon@debian.org                                   http://www.debian.org/

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