Re: Seg faults when not root
Steve Mayer wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Maybe some of you have run across this problem.
>
> Last night I was doing my nightly check of the new packages in the
> unstable tree and downloaded and installed the bash2.01-3,
> bash-builtins2.01-3, and libreadlineg2-??? (sorry, don't have the info,
> but it is the latest out there). After the installation of these files,
> there are quite a number of commands that no longer work unless I'm
> logged in as root. Among these are less, more, startx, man, etc...
> Most of the commands error out with a segmentaion fault, others simply
> die without outputting any info to the console.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Steve Mayer
> smayer@rtd.com
Guess: wrong permissions on shared libs. To find out for sure, run
one of these commands with strace (if you've got it installed) to find
out exactly where the problem is.
--
Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com
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