[425] in RedHat Linux List
Re: less/core dump...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Skull)
Tue Oct 22 14:29:01 1996
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 14:25:38 -0400
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From: Skull <skull@yakko.cs.wmich.edu>
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>gdb less core
here is my output, logged to a file of gdb less core, any idea why it
says i586 when I have a i486dx50?
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GDB 4.16 (i586-unknown-linux), Copyright 1996 Free Software Foundation, Inc...
(no debugging symbols found)...
Core was generated by `less log_mg.ttyS0'.
Program terminated with signal 4, Illegal instruction.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib//libncurses.so.3.0...
(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libtermcap.so.2.0.8...(no debugging symbols found)...
done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.5.3.12...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
#0 0x400b0162 in rx_compile ()
(gdb)
>in the directory where that core file is... should give you a better
>idea on what it did. It's possible that there is something about that
>specific file that causes less to dump core. Probably still a bug in
>less, but not as obvious as we'd like. :)
No, its not that file, as its done it with every file I've tried to do a
search with.
Darron
>> Using less that comes with Redhat 4.0, works great, until I try
>> and do a search using /, and I get nice little core dump from it
>> too. The machine is a 486dx50, 16 megs of ram, kernel 2.0.23, but
>> 2.0.21 did it also, haven't tried any other kernels yet though.
>> It gives 'Illegal instruction (core dumped)' and leaves a nice
>> 352k sized core dump. Any ideas? Is this a less bug? or a kernel
>> bug? I've never had this happen before from Redhat 3.0.3 using whatever
>> version of less it has. This isn't too big of a deal, but if its a bug
>> that noone has found, might be good to fix it.
>> Darron
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