Bug 29532

Summary:	makewhatis.cron dumps core
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Thilo Mezger <thilo.mezger>
Component:	man	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Aaron Brown <abrown>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.1
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2001-03-02 08:15:22 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Thilo Mezger 2001-02-26 10:15:38 UTC

Running /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis.cron dumps core.

"file core" says: "process `sort' killed by signal 11".

My system has been installed with German locale.

Comment 1 Glen Foster 2001-02-26 23:51:24 UTC

We (Red Hat) should really try to resolve this before next release.

Comment 2 Trond Eivind Glomsrxd 2001-02-28 05:06:21 UTC

Are you able to do other large jobs, like compilings kernels (preferably 10
times or so in a row) without sig11?

I've run this many times without such problems, and would highly suspect your
hardware (overclocking or bad memory chip).

I recommend try the adwise found at http://www.desy.de/unix/linux/memtest/
and http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/.

Reopen if all of these tests succeed.

Comment 3 Thilo Mezger 2001-03-02 08:15:11 UTC

It's an otherwise very stable 440BX-based system that is *not* overclocked. 
Solid Pentium power.  It has been compiling kernels for hours (with "make -j8")
and ran Memtest-86 for more than 10 hours.  So I guess, we're back in game...

I tried to reproduce the bug on a minimal install but makewhatis does not seem
to find enough man-pages to crash.

My assumption is that German locale plus maybe a strange man-page could be the
cause.  If somebody at www.redhat.de has an "Everything"-install in German and
could try to verify that?

I'll try to reproduce the bug this weekend myself.

PS: Yes, I have verified the MD5SUM's after download and checked every single
RPM with "rpm -K".

Comment 4 Florian La Roche 2001-03-05 11:32:32 UTC

The sort bug was fixed in textutils-2.0.11-6, after the wolverine release. You
can test
http://people.redhat.com/laroche/textutils* if you want to fix this.

Please open a new bug if you can still make sort crash with some special locale
settings.