Re: Seg faults when not root

[Steve Mayer <smayer@rtd.com>]

Jens,

  Thanks for the suggestion.  I thought I checked the permissions last night,
but I'll recheck them when I get home from work. I'll let you know if I figure
this one out.

Thanks,

Steve Mayer
smayer@rtd.com

Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:

> 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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