[3477] in testers
Re: sgi_62/8.2 login crashes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sat May 23 09:45:06 1998
Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 09:45:00 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[3472] in testers"
> The 8.2 login program is crashing on Irix 6.2; from a process trace,
> it seems to be dying almost immediately, perhaps before entering
> main(). I tried building it from the current source in order to
> debug it, and that version does not crash.
Interestingly, the build logs do not contain "damaged object" warnings
about login, but the unstripped binary in the build tree works, and
manually stripping that binary produces one which fails. So there may
be damaged stripped programs in the release other than the ones strip
complains about.
(Incidentally, copying binaries to /var/tmp and stripping them there
doesn't help, so this is probably not an AFS issue.)
This problem does not appear to be reliably reproduceable at the
compiler level (e.g. building zephyr doesn't yield an unstrippable
zaway binary). I can only conclude that the IRIX 6.2 cc is not
deterministic. I'm going to switch to building the release with gcc
now.
