Re: 2.3.44 bug

Brendan Cully (brendan@kublai.com)
Sun, 13 Feb 2000 13:45:18 -0500


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On Sunday, 13 February 2000 at 17:16, David Wragg wrote:
> Tigran Aivazian <tigran@ocston.org> writes:
> > I was using 2.3.43 (and all other recent 2.3.x) without observing this
> > specific problem so it is something new to 2.3.44. I have not narrowed
> > it down yet but the symptom is that I can't start any large programs
> > (e.g. X) and can't compile almost anything, gcc randomly dies with
> > SIGSEGV.
>=20
> Me too.
>=20
> Different programs though; X is fine, gcc is fine, xemacs is fine. The
> things that triggered it for me are nnrpd (innd itself is fine) and
> /usr/bin/netscape -- not netscape itself but the wrapper shell script
> (from the RedHat 6.1 netscape-common-4.61-12 RPM). But other shell
> scripts run without problems. Very odd.

Me too!

X is fine, netscape is fine. xmms dies with "Illegal instruction", ldd
always segfaults.

Dual PII/350
Debian potato (libc-2.1.3-2)

On the other hand, the new ACPI code has given me USB with MPS 1.4 for
the first time ever. Yay! (Gigabyte GA-6BXDS, 440BX).
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