Re: Backtrace mentions "__check_rhosts_file" !?
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On Wednesday 20 November 2002 1:58 am, Nick Boyce wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 11:53:45 +0000, David Pashley wrote:
> >On Tuesday 19 November 2002 2:28 am, Nick Boyce wrote:
> >> ... why does every KDE crash dump (= backtrace) I
> >> see include the line
> >>
> >> #1 0x40dcae48 in __check_rhosts_file () from /lib/libc.so.6
>
> [...]
>
> >You are better off asking the kde mailing list. Look at http://www.kde.org
> > for mailing list information. Alternatively, grep the sources.
>
> Yeah - I guess you're right - sorry, wrong list ...
>
> > ... It would be helpful if you posted the entire backtrace (or at
> >least the few lines around that), so we can see the context.
>
> FWIW, here's a bit more :
> (the crash was the klisa ioslave in konqueror, KDE 2.2.2)
> ==========================< cut >===========================
> (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
> [lots more lines just the same snipped]
> (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
> (no debugging symbols found)...0x40d53a59 in wait4 () from
> /lib/libc.so.6
> #0 0x40d53a59 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #1 0x40dcae48 in __check_rhosts_file () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #2 0x405944d8 in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler () from
> /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3
>
[snip]
> ==========================< cut >===========================
>
> I'm not going to dwell on it though - klisa having an imminent
> security fix and all .. but I will repost my general query to
> kde-linux.
>
As you can see this is being called from KCrash, so every time the program
crashes, it calls this function. not too sure why.
> BTW I just did some Googling on this, and the __check_rhosts_file call
> seems to appear in every bugzilla-reported backtrace there is ! That
> seems to include Gnome app crashes as well, so maybe it's not a
> KDE-related thing.
>
- --
David Pashley
david@davidpashley.com
Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione.
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