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Re: less/core dump...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Otto Hammersmith)
Tue Oct 22 14:48:36 1996
From: Otto Hammersmith <ohammers@cu-online.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 13:42:43 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19961022182538.006940c0@141.218.40.78> from "Skull" at Oct 22, 96 02:25:38 pm
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Strange...
which redhat are you running? ( I presume not 4.0)
which version of less? (contribed version?)
I don't have a symbol rx_compile in my binary of less.. in fact, it's
been stripped.
Someone else probably knows better than I do...
Skull wrote:
>
> >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?
>
> GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it
> under certain conditions; type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB; type "show warranty" for details.
> 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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