hostname cores

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 12:20:35PM -0700, Southo wrote:
> Greetings Listmembers,
> 
> Any thoughts on why I would get segmentation faults every time I run
> hostname(8)? I get the same error when using 'su'. I suppose this is because
> the system is looking for the hostname or something related. Whenever I run
> the hostname or su commands I get a segmentation fault error and a core file
> (hostname.core) in the current dir. 
> 
> I've tried debugging, totally not knowing what I'm doing, and managed to
> produce this hoping it will help one of the gurus on the list help me out.

You need to rebuild the binary (and possibly the libraries it uses)
with DEBUG_FLAGS="-g"

This is a strange problem though, and it's likely that you have either
damaged your FreeBSD installation or have hardware problems.

Kris

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