Re: fsck seg fault failure on vmware -i386?

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> What would be useful would be to find out (if it is possible, I hestiated
> to ask earlier, as I suspect this will not be easy) would be to find out
> just what the value of the time_t is that was handed to ctime() and ended
> up with a core dump.    That, and the (much easier to discover) what
> timezone
> would normally be in use (ie: what is /etc/localtime) ?
>
> If the core dump from fsck can be obtained, the way to discover the time
> value most easily (I think) would be to do a stack trace, look at the call
> of ctime(), see its (one) parameter, and look at what that points to -
> that's
> the time_t value of interest.
>
> Apart form that, it would require finding the inode in question, and
> dumping its contents, which is probably not-trivial.
>
> Of course, an alternative way to see if this is what the problem is would
> be
> to fix asctime_r() (simply make it return NULL if its timeptr arg is
> NULL),
> and fix fsck_ffs (if ctime() returns NULL, don't attempt to dereference
> it).
> Then see if that version of fsck_ffs still dumps core, if it does, then we
> haven't yet found the real problem.  If those changes fix it, then you
> have
> the guts of a PR to submit to get a big fixed...

OK, have core and gdb - you already saw the backtrace ouput...

Is this what you are looking for?:
(gdb) down
Bottom (innermost) frame selected; you cannot go down.
(gdb) up
#1  0xbbb3c6b3 in asctime () from /lib/libc.so.12
(gdb) up
#2  0xbbb39284 in __ctime50 () from /lib/libc.so.12
(gdb) up
#3  0x0804d5e6 in pinode (ino=224938) at /usr/src/sbin/fsck_ffs/inode.c:659
659             p = ctime(&t);
(gdb) print t
$1 = 1264115119
(gdb) print &t
$2 = (time_t *) 0xbfbfdaa8
(gdb) quit
xperiment 2 # date
Tue Feb  2 18:25:43 EST 2010

On single user boot w/out /usr I get:
Tue Feb  2 23:27:35 GMT 2010

What next?