On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:36:18PM +0100, Jonathan David Amery wrote: > I've just upgraded my system from woody to sarge. Among other upgrade > problems I noticed that programmes like cp, mv and install were occasionally > segfaulting (and the packages that were invoking them failing to get > installed), leaving register dumps like this in my logs: > pc : [<400278ac>] lr : [<4002a348>] Not tainted > sp : bffff4f4 ip : 40049cf8 fp : bffff780 > r10: 400333bc r9 : bffffa38 r8 : bffff548 > r7 : bffff561 r6 : 00000000 r5 : 0001c324 r4 : bffff50c > r3 : 00000004 r2 : 00000000 r1 : 00009d6b r0 : bffff508 > Flags: nzCv IRQs on FIQs on Mode USER_32 Segment user > Control: 1C14917D Table: 1C14917D DAC: 00000015 > Looking at the ldd output for cp makes it quite clear that this is inside > libacl1: > libacl.so.1 => /lib/libacl.so.1 (0x40026000) > libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40034000) > libattr.so.1 => /lib/libattr.so.1 (0x40159000) > /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000) > libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x40164000) > Recompiling libacl1 (itself an awkward task since the package itself > segfaults in the middle when it is doing something to the postinst script) > and installing the recompiled version fixes the problem. > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 3.1 > APT prefers testing > APT policy: (500, 'testing') > Architecture: arm (armv4l) > Kernel: Linux 2.4.18-rmk7 Do you know if upgrading to the 2.4 kernel version available in sarge makes a difference here? -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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