Bug 1739

Summary:	linuxconf in a VC seg faults
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Component:	linuxconf	Assignee:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.0	CC:	davem, gafton, jack
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Hardware:	sparc
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Description Derek Tattersall 1999-03-24 15:59:29 UTC

linuxconf seg faults in a VC on a Sparc 10.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-03-24 16:35:59 UTC

stack trace is:
#0  0x7851c in HELP_FILE::HELP_FILE ()
#1  0x50271d60 in global constructors keyed to pam_check_pass () at
pam.cc:14
#2  0x50275d48 in __do_global_ctors_aux ()
#3  0x5026dfb8 in _init ()
#4  0x5022d7d4 in dl_open_worker (a=0xe4038) at dl-open.c:144
#5  0x5000ce44 in _dl_catch_error () at dl-error.c:99
#6  0x5022d968 in _dl_open () at dl-open.c:155
#7  0x500c10fc in dlopen_doit (a=0xefffc8f8) at dlopen.c:39
#8  0x5000ce44 in _dl_catch_error () at dl-error.c:99
#9  0x500c18e4 in _dlerror_run (operate=0x500c10c8 <dlopen_doit>,
args=0xefffc8f8) at dlerror.c:122
#10 0x500c10b0 in __dlopen_check (file=0xefffcaa8
"/usr/lib/linuxconf/redhat/redhat.so.1.14.0", mode=258) at dlopen.c:50
#11 0x7b4c0 in module_loadcheck ()
#12 0x7b750 in module_loaddistmod ()
#13 0x32ef4 in main ()
#14 0x50173750 in __libc_start_main () at
../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:78
(gdb)

Comment 2 Michael K. Johnson 1999-03-29 17:40:59 UTC

This smells like the setjmp/longjmp stuff in glibc we dealt with
before.  We need to verify that our patch to setjmp/longjmp
survived the move to glibc 2.1, or alternatively that equivalent
functionality was included in glibc 2.1

Comment 3 Michael K. Johnson 1999-04-09 17:35:59 UTC

Fixed in linuxconf-1.14r4 -- linuxconf was making shared libraries
out of code that was not compiled -fPIC.  It's a bug on the sparc
that not compiling -fPIC broke it, but it was also a bug in linuxconf
not to compile -fPIC...