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Re: static link csh/tcsh dumps core



In article <20130209021846.GB14983%ece.cmu.edu@localhost>,
Chuck Cranor  <chuck%ece.cmu.edu@localhost> wrote:
>
>I've been updating one of our alphas here at CMU with 6.0.1
>(was running 5.1_STABLE from Feb 2011 before).
>
>The upgrade went fine, but when I started updating pkgsrc
>I noticed that my /bin/tcsh (from standalone-tcsh package)
>dumps the core.
>
>I dug into it a bit more and discovered that even csh dumps
>core if it is static linked:
>
>% uname -a
>NetBSD omega.pdl.cmu.local 6.0.1 NetBSD 6.0.1 (GENERIC-$Revision: 1.343
>$) #1: Tue Feb  5 13:43:34 EST 2013 
>chuck%omega.pdl.cmu@localhost.local:/home/netbsd/6/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/OMEGA
>alpha
>% /bin/sh
>$ exit
>% /bin/csh -f
>% exit
>% exit
>% 
>% /rescue/sh
>$ exit
>% /rescue/csh
>Segmentation fault
>% 
>
>
>Now if I run /rescue/csh from my old 5.1_STABLE system it works:
>
>% 
>% /home/netbsd/5/alpha/destdir/rescue/csh -f
>% exit
>% exit
>% 
>
>so the problem was introduced sometime in the last 12 months.
>
>is anyone else seeing this with /rescue/csh on their alpha?
>what would cause something like this?
>

gdb stacktrace?

christos



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