bus error

[Joshua Oreman]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 01:24:39PM -0400 or thereabouts, David S. Jackson seemed to write:
> 
> I'm afraid I'm getting a nasty error when I try to do some very
> fundamental things. Not sure what's back of all the problems.
> 
> For example when I try to start vim or even xinit, I get:
> 
> Jun 23 12:00:12 juno /kernel: pid 2700 (vim), uid 0: exited on signal 10
> 
> 
> (I happened to be root at the time, but same applies to any user.)
> 
> 
> When I try to startx, I get:
> 
> Bus error
> 
> uname -a shows: FreeBSD juno.dsj.net 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD
> 4.5-STABLE #7: Sun Apr 28 15:23:53 EDT 2002:
> root at juno.dsj.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/JUNO i386
> 
> I do find .core files for proggies I cannot start, though. I went gdb vim vim.core and got the following:
> 
> ***snip***
> (no debugging symbols found)
> Core was generated by 'vim'.
> Program terminated with signal 10, Bus error.
> Reading symbo9ls from /usr/X11R6/lib/libgtk12.so.2...
> (no debugging symbols found)...done
> Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libgdk12.so.2...
> (no debugging symbols found)...done
> Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libgmodule12.so.3...
> (no debugging symbols found)...done
> Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libglib12.so.3...
> (no debugging symbols found)...done
> Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/libintl.so.2...
> (no debugging symbols found)...done
> Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done
> #0 0x2815a26b in memset () from /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1
> (gdb)

Type 'bt', press enter.

> 
> ***snip***
> 
> Here's the same thing for xinit.core
> 
> ***snip***
> This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-freebsd"...
> (no debugging symbols found)...
> Core was generated by 'xinit'.
> Program terminated with signal 10, Bus error.
> Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXmu.so.6...
> (no debugging symbols found)...
> Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6...
> (no debugging symbols found)...
> Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done
> #0 0x2805826b in memset () from /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1
> (gdb)

Type 'bt', press enter.

> 
> ***snip***
> 
> 
> Mind you, I typed this while looking at the screen of the other
> box. Hope I got it correctly.
> 
> Any idea what is back of this?

Just clutching at straws here... What does ls -l /etc/malloc.conf say?

> 
> Does it look like some file corruption to ld-elf.so.1?  How the
> heck do I fix that if so? I tried to remake a kernel a while back
> and couldn't even complete that process. (sniff, sniff)
> 
> What type of stuff uses ld-elf.so.1 anyway? Everything?

Everything in /usr/local/[s]bin, most things in /usr/bin.

-- Josh

> 
> TIA.
> 
> -- 
> David S. Jackson                        dsj at dsj.net
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