Bug 65776 - less segfaults in linux rescue mode
Summary: less segfaults in linux rescue mode
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: anaconda
Version: 7.3
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
QA Contact: Aaron Brown
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-05-31 16:43 UTC by David Tonhofer
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:42 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2006-02-21 18:48:59 UTC
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Description David Tonhofer 2002-05-31 16:43:09 UTC
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Description of problem:
'less' segmentation faults under linux rescue mode (even w/o any
arguments). This is probably less an error about 'less' than about the
rescue mode

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start linux rescue mode from CD
2. In the tty1 shell, type
3. less
	

Actual Results:  Segmentation fault

Expected Results:  File contents should show up

Additional info:

'less' segmentation faults under linux rescue mode (even w/o any
arguments) Here is some information from strace and the debugger.
More can be delivered on request.

The last messages from strace before the fault:

strace:  close(3)       = 0
         brk(0)         = 0x805efb4
         brk(0x805efe4) = 0x805efe4
         brk(0x805f000) = 0x805f000

GDB says:

SIGSEGV in 0x0805a002 in _IO_stdin_used()
           0x08048e5a in _init()
           0x400690af in __libc_start_main()from /lib/libc.so.6

instructions: 0x805a000 jae 0x805a06a <_IO_stdin_used+13222>
              0x805a002 gs 
              0x805a003 insb (%dx),%es:(%edi)

This is probably not going to help much, so as I said -- ask
for more info if you want to.

Comment 1 Karsten Hopp 2002-06-04 09:45:44 UTC
doesn't seem to be a problem in less. changed component to anaconda

Comment 2 Michael Fulbright 2002-06-04 14:36:05 UTC
I haven't had this problem - if you look on VC3 and VC4 do you see any read
errors? If you were running rescue mode from a CD I would hazard to guess the CD
is bad.

Comment 3 Michael Fulbright 2002-07-15 16:53:45 UTC
Closing due to inactivty, please reopen if you have additional information to add.

Comment 4 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-02-21 18:48:59 UTC
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.


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