[Kroupware] Seg Fault during installation

[Stephan Buys]

This is a long shot but you aren't perhaps running NSS or PAM LDAP?

I see the something is accessing the password file directly and not
using "getent". We had an issue where Postfix kept on crashing because
of nss.



On Monday 14 April 2003 16:06, you wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 04:11, Stephan Buys wrote:
> > What about using strace with the command? This should show you
> > where the segfault occurs.
> >
> > > strace rpm -bb make.spec
> >
> > You might want to redirect the output to a file and step through it.
> > (There will be a lot of information)
>
> This is the trace just before the fault.  It doesnt say much to me,
> maybe it will spark something for someone else:
>
> open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)        = 12
> read(12, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0hr\1\000"...,
> 1024) = 1024
> fstat64(12, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1344152, ...}) = 0
> old_mmap(NULL, 1207648, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 12, 0) =
> 0x402a7000
> mprotect(0x403c5000, 36192, PROT_NONE)  = 0
> old_mmap(0x403c5000, 20480, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED,
> 12, 0x11e000) = 0x403c5000
> old_mmap(0x403ca000, 15712, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x403ca000
> close(12)                               = 0
> open("/lib/ld-linux.so.2", O_RDONLY)    = 12
> read(12, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0@\v\0\000"...,
> 1024) = 1024
> fstat64(12, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=85420, ...}) = 0
> old_mmap(NULL, 75472, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 12, 0) =
> 0x403ce000
> mprotect(0x403e0000, 1744, PROT_NONE)   = 0
> old_mmap(0x403e0000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED,
> 12, 0x12000) = 0x403e0000
> close(12)                               = 0
> brk(0)                                  = 0x8218000
> brk(0x8218030)                          = 0x8218030
> brk(0)                                  = 0x8218030
> brk(0x8219000)                          = 0x8219000
> open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY)           = 12
> fcntl64(12, F_GETFD)                    = 0
> fcntl64(12, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)        = 0
> fstat64(12, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1567, ...}) = 0
> old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
> -1, 0) = 0x403e1000
> read(12, "root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash\n"..., 4096) = 1567
> close(12)                               = 0
> munmap(0x403e1000, 4096)                = 0
> chdir("/")                              = 0
> chroot("/")                             = 0
> open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY)           = 12
> fcntl64(12, F_GETFD)                    = 0
> fcntl64(12, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)        = 0
> fstat64(12, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1567, ...}) = 0
> old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,
> -1, 0) = 0x403e1000
> read(12, "root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash\n"..., 4096) = 1567
> close(12)                               = 0
> munmap(0x403e1000, 4096)                = 0
> brk(0)                                  = 0x8219000
> brk(0x821a000)                          = 0x821a000
> brk(0)                                  = 0x821a000
> brk(0x821b000)                          = 0x821b000
> socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0)         = 12
> --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
> +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
>
> What seemed more important in the trace were repeated errors about an
> inappropriate device:
>
> ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE, 0xbffff280) = -1 ENOTTY (Inappropriate ioctl
> for device)
>
> This is a sound card call isnt it?  How do I fix that and could that
> cause the seg fault?
>
> Also, to address the suggestions of others:
>
> 1)  I am definitely using /kolab/bin/rpm and not the local version.
> 2)  Generated a core file and ran it thru gdb but all it gave me was
> memory addresses with '??' for labels.
>
> thanks for the help thus far...
>
> -b
>
> -b