On my laptop, a NEC Versa 2780MT (ca. January, 1998 and very Linux-friendly) with wolverine + up2date (sndconfig-0.64.5-1), sndconfig --mungeftp has a segmentation fault and dumps core. Right now, as I write this, I can't find rawhide on the ftp site in the usual location, so I have no way of getting the source RPM for this. I don't think this happened with the original sndconfig on wolverine, and on this machine, I jumped straight from that to all the updates as of this writing. Since I don't have sources right now and sndconfig is stripped, I can't provide much useful information at this time. I will provide two pieces of information that could be helpful: 1. sound support actually does work in spite of this -- both dsp and midi work fine. 2. here's an excerpt of what strace and gdb give: # strace sndconfig --mungeftp ... open("./isapnp", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/proc/isapnp", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "Card 1 \'AKY0019:Lucent Venus Mod"..., 4096) = 1347 read(3, "", 4096) = 0 close(3) = 0 syslog(0x8, 0, 0x6) = 0 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ # gdb /sbin/sndconfig core ... Core was generated by `sndconfig --mungepnp'. Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault. Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/libc.so.6 Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done. Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #0 0x0804df2f in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:31 31 ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c: No such file or directory. in ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c (gdb) So something's passing a null pointer to syslog(). Hopefully this won't be too hard to track down. I'm attaching the full strace and gdb output to this report though I doubt it will provide more information than the summary I've given here.
Created attachment 14067 [details] strace and gdb output
Oops! I attached the strace output without saving it after cleaning up control codes, etc. I'm attaching a clean version. Please ignore attachment 14067 [details].
Actually, it's almost certainly dying after syslogging, I would think. What does ltrace say?
Created attachment 14068 [details] correct strace and gdb output
Wow [expression of amazement] -- I've been using strace for years and I never knew about ltrace. Whatever else happens today, I've just learned of a fantastic tool. Thanks! Here's the end of the ltrace output: strcmp("sb1000", "unknown") = -2 strcmp("smc-ultra", "unknown") = -2 strcmp("aha1542", "unknown") = -20 strcmp("g_NCR5380", "unknown") = -14 free(0x080dd288) = <void> free(0x080dd268) = <void> free(0x080dd298) = <void> free(0x080dd2c8) = <void> free(0x080de8e8) = <void> free(0x080dd278) = <void> free(0x080dd2a8) = <void> free(0x080dd208) = <void> free(0x080dc200) = <void> syscall(103, 8, 0, 6, 288) = 0 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ I'm attaching the full ltrace output to this report. No, I'm not. It's over 7mb. Anyway, you can see the syslog call is the last thing to happen and that this seems to happen after going through a bunch of stuff in /proc. I'm attaching the ltrace output starting from when it attempts to open ./isapnp.
Created attachment 14069 [details] end of ltrace output
*duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh*. Patch attached, will be fixed in next build. I'm 99 1/100% sure this is it. (FYI, rawhide is now at ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/)
Created attachment 14070 [details] oops, probably should check this. :)
I'll try it sometime, but not right now. Anyway, where you have: if (devs && devs[0]->bus == BUS_ISAPNP && I would have coded if (devs && devs[0] && devs[0]->bus == BUS_ISAPNP && just to be safe. Maybe you know devs non-zero implies devs[0] non-zero -- I haven't looked at the code at all. Thanks for the info on the updated rawhide path.
I lied. I did check it now. Your patch (as attached, without my extra mod) does indeed solve the problem for me. Thanks.