We were running gnats-3.2 (compiled locally) by near two years. The
original RedHat Linux version installed was 5.1, but the system had been
running on 5.2 most time. At November 20th 1999, we installed 6.0 (I mean,
erased everything except user data), and installed gnats-3.108-1.i386.rpm.
We replicated our configuraion and copied data. But we are unable to access
PRs. I tried gen-index, but It crashed.
The core file was on /usr/share/gnats/gnats-db, so I issued:
gdb /usr/libexec/gnats/gen-index /usr/share/gnast/gnats-db/core
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux"...
(no debugging symbols found)...
Core was generated by `/usr/libexec/gnats/gen-index'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
#0  0x4005b81a in _IO_vfprintf (s=0x0, format=0x8050090 "%s",
ap=0xbffffc64)
    at vfprintf.c:1013
1013	vfprintf.c: No such file or directory.
(gdb) where
#0  0x4005b81a in _IO_vfprintf (s=0x0, format=0x8050090 "%s",
ap=0xbffffc64)
    at vfprintf.c:1013
#1  0x400636f7 in fprintf (stream=0x0, format=0x8050090 "%s") at
fprintf.c:32
#2  0x8049617 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#3  0x804998a in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:30
#4  0x4002ecb3 in __libc_start_main (main=0x8049864 <strcpy+1432>, argc=1,
    argv=0xbffffce4, init=0x8048e6c, fini=0x804ff5c <getopt_long_only+124>,
    rtld_fini=0x4000a350 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffffcdc)
    at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:78
(gdb) quit
I tried gnats-3.110-2.i386.rpm (powertools 6.1) but It crashed too.
I'm going to find gnats-3.2 and recompile it on 6.0. We have 594 PRs,
and really need the system up and running.