On Fri, 07 Nov 2003 16:08:36 -0800 Florin Andrei <florin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-11-07 at 11:29, ne... wrote: > > On Nov 7, 2003 at 10:11, Florin Andrei in a soothing rage wrote: > > >checking for working aclocal... ./configure: line 1615: 3633 > > >Segmentation fault ( aclocal --version ) </dev/null >/dev/null > > >2>&1 > > > Could this be attributed to exec-shield? > > Nope: > > [root@rivendell root]# echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/exec-shield > [root@rivendell root]# rpmbuild --rebuild > fluxbox-0.1.14-0.fdr.6.0.94.src.rpm > [...snip...] > + perl -pi -e 's/.*HAVE_STRFTIME.*/#define HAVE_STRFTIME 1/' > config.h.in/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.56176: line 29: 3639 Segmentation fault > perl -pi > -e 's/.*HAVE_STRFTIME.*/#define HAVE_STRFTIME 1/' config.h.in > error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.56176 (%build) > > And then, with exec-shield being kept disabled: > > [florin@rivendell florin]$ vncserver > Segmentation fault > > Like i said before, this system worked perfectly until yesterday, on > RH9. > > The strange thing is that the basic desktop apps and network servers > seem to work pretty well. It's just niche applications that crap out: > vncserver segfaults, various compilation utilities bail out at certain > programs. > > I was able to rebuild the newest Gaim src.rpm from sf.net, so it's not > like compilation doesn't work at all. > > -- > Florin Andrei Hello, Everyone :) I was attracted to the subject line of this thread: "segmentation faults galore" With me it works this way: I'll compile a program from source code: let's say Krusader, Krename or Juk. Everything proceeds as normal, and the applications in question work perfectly at first. But then, I don't know yet what it takes, maybe just a reboot, but then the applications that had run fine maybe a boot ago, now bomb out with only this error message: segmentation fault. With the above mentioned applications, I recompiled and reinstalled them, and they work fine. We'll see what happens after I reboot :) Also, the above mentioned applications are all KDE related. The problems that I've seen with GNOME are a lot worse. See my previously started thread "Graphical Greeter has Crashed, Attempting to use another" and also check out the bug report I filed: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=126606 The Gnome applications that I've seen crash with segmentation faults so far are: Nautilus, Epiphany, Gthumb, the GDM login greeter, GDM itself, and last but not least, on each of the above mentioned GNOME applications, when I clicked the button "Submit a Bug Report", I got a message that BugBuddy had crashed with a segmentation fault. Kind of ironic..... I'll write back after I reboot, if I have any new information. Steven P. Ulrick
