Re: [gentoo-dev] depscan.sh segfault issue

[Martin Schlemmer]

On Mon, 2001-11-12 at 07:49, jano wrote:
>
> Ahhhh poop, feel like a dork replying to myself.  But I made some progress.
>
> I've narrowed down the problem to the gpm init.d script.  For some reason,
> depscan doesn't like it at all.  I messed around, and found an interesting,
> albeit STRANGE, pattern:
>
> if I named gpm to:
> gpm-
> gpm~
> gpm1
> gmp
> gpf
> mouse
> mouse-script
>
> and tried to add it using rc-update (makeing sure it was removed first),
> depscan would segfault.  However, when I named gpm to
> testing
> test
> blah
> foobar
> it worked great.
>
> I also tried commenting out everything inside the script, moving stuff
> around, blah blah blah, no go.
>
> Uhhhm.... HUH???????????????????????  This is mucked up. :D
>

Yep.  I cant think it being depscan.sh itself, rather maybe a 
bug in bash, or something.  Try another version bash, or maybe
remerge bash with less optimizations.

> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > my depscan.sh segfaulting issue is still here.  I upgraded baselayout
> > to next version (1.6.5 from 1.6.4), but couldn't figure out how to make
> > it work.
> > Per rec of some people on irc, I ran depscan.sh through strace.  Sorry,
> > i have no idea how to debug a seg fault, but the output of depscan
> > through strace is here, for anyone interested:
> >
> > http://www.portablehole.net/~jano/fridge/strace.depscan.sh.bz2
> > (28k, decompresses to 3.5MB file)
> >
> > system specs:
> > kernel 2.4.14 with preempt and xfs patches
> > p3 800x2, 512MB ram
> > via apollopro chipset
> >
> >


Greetings,

-- 

Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa