Bug#653178: "/bin/cat whatever just segfaults" (Re: Bug#653178: reopen)

[Eric Valette <eric.valette@free.fr>]

On 03/01/2012 04:25, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Hi Eric,
>
> Eric Valette wrote:
>
> > reopen #653179
>
> Rather than fiddling with metadata, why not provide some information
> to help others reproduce or otherwise understand your report?  /bin/cat
> works fine for me.  [1] has some hints.
>
> Sorry for the trouble,
> Jonathan
>
> [1] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html


cat whatever segfaults is simple enough to reproduce. Except it 
segfaults not each time but 8 out of 10 times.

And again its a libc error. Downgrading from -23 to -21 fixed the 
problem. When I boot, hostname it null as init script hostname.sh does 
segfault.

On arm and on a NAS without console (dlink323) this kind of libc problem 
may brick the device...


--eric