On Mon, 10 Jan 2005, Jeff Vian wrote: > On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 18:35 +0100, nodata wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 09:16 -0500, Neo Anderson wrote: > > > I am running FC3 inside Microsoft Virtual PC 2004/SP1 and my kernel is > > > the latest 2.6.9-1.724_FC3. > > > > > > A copy of the output after run the command: > > > > > > [neo@fedora ~]$ man -k "map " > > > sh: /unsafe/: No such file or directory > > > Error executing formatting or display command. > > > System command /unsafe/ exited with status 32512. > > > Segmentation fault > > > > > > Does this mean anything special to security? It is a bug? > > > > > > > > > > Bugzilla it. "Nothing should segfault." > > > > Did the segfault occur as a result of the Linux install and (not so) > native access to hardware, or as a result of the environment?? (you said > "I am running FC3 inside Microsoft Virtual PC 2004/SP1") > > Does the same command cause the same results when running with an > identical install on identical hardware native and not inside the > "virtual PC" environment? > > Segfaults should not occur, but you need to be able to identify whether > it is the software that caused it or the environment that caused it. Happens to me to, on a bare-metal Thinkpad T41. I think it's probably software. man -k "map" (no blank space) works just fine. -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
