Re: bin/49821: /bin/tar randomly coredumps when security.pax.aslr.enabled is set to 1

[Alexander Nasonov <alnsn%yandex.ru@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/49821; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alexander Nasonov <alnsn%yandex.ru@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, alnsn%yandex.ru@localhost
Subject: Re: bin/49821: /bin/tar randomly coredumps when
 security.pax.aslr.enabled is set to 1
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2015 23:10:21 +0100

 Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
 >  On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 08:40:01PM +0000, Alexander Nasonov wrote:
 >  >  > >Description:
 >  >  > /bin/tar randomly fails to list files in a gzipped or bzip2ed modules.tar file:
 >  >  > 
 >  >  > $ tar ztpf modules.tar.gz |head 
 >  >  > tar: End of archive volume 1 reached
 >  >  > tar: Sorry, unable to determine archive format.
 >  >  
 >  >  It's still reproducible, and like gmake crash which I reported today,
 >  >  the problem goes away after I run ulimit -s `ulimit -s`.
 >  
 >  What limit do you start with and what is it reduced to?
 
 I start with 4096 and I change it ... to 4096. This trick always fixes
 the problem.
 
 Alex