Bus error

Simon Barner barner at in.tum.de
Thu Nov 6 05:21:06 PST 2003


Hi,

> Hi today, cvsup'ed my source and build world ...
> and now get an so called
> 
> Bus error
> 
> while i want to su, anyone know about it (or fixed it)

I think the best is to build debugging version of su:

# cd /usr/src/usr.bin/su 
# make clean
# make depend
# set CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -g"
# make
# install  -o root -g wheel -m 4555  -fschg /usr/obj/usr/src/usr.bin/su/su /usr/bin

( 'make install' will strip the binary and all the nice debug info is
gone)

Now run su in the debugger, and will probably get a core dump:

gdb /usr/bin/su   
GNU gdb 5.2.1 (FreeBSD)
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GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
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There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-undermydesk-freebsd"...(no debugging symbols found)...
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/su 


When it crashes, get a backtrace (in gdb: `bt full' and post it here).

Simon
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