From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; SunOS 5.8 sun4u) Description of problem: When running the program: #! /usr/bin/python print 'Hello, world' Python will reliably seg fault. By reliably, I mean approximately 1/4th of the time. Examining the core file with gdb reveals the following stack trace: (gdb) where #0 __errno_location () at errno.c:25 #1 0x4013f4e7 in __readlink () from /lib/i686/libc.so.6 #2 0x0805018c in Py_Main () at eval.c:41 #3 0x0804fc73 in main () at eval.c:41 #4 0x40080177 in __libc_start_main (main=0x804fc54 <main>, argc=2, ubp_av=0xbffff9d4, init=0x804f1ec <_init>, fini=0x8096a1c <_fini>, rtld_fini=0x4000e184 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffff9cc) at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:129 The system is a dual P-III 1Ghz machine running RH 7.1 with the 2.4.3 kernel contained in the kernel-smp-2.4.3-12 kernel RPM. All available 7.1 updates have been applied. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: Repeatedly ran test program included in description Additional info:
Not seeing this with RHL 7.3 or newer (which is all I've tested) - reopen with details if you can reproduce.