Re: Segfaults with latest sources

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <Pine.NEB.4.64.1603142056280.2618%david.technoskunk.fur@localhost>,
John D. Baker <jdbaker%mylinuxisp.com@localhost> wrote:
>On Mon, 14 Mar 2016, John D. Baker wrote:
>
>> I tried 'ktruss'-ing it, but then it doesn't fail.
>
>I think 'ftp's problem is with 'progress'.  I successfully downloaded
>"201603140930Z/evbmips-mips64el/base.tgz" with the 'ktruss'ed ftp
>(duplicating STDERR on STDOUT and piping it to 'tee' to capture the
>log).  I usually extract the release sets with:
>
>  # progress -ezf base.tgz tar xpf - -C /
>
>but 'progress' got SIGSEGV and exited.  Using plain 'tar' worked fine.
>
>Running with the snapshot "base.tgz" set produces the same segfaults
>in 'mount_tmpfs', 'ntpd', and 'sudo'.

Looks like I need to get myself a mips64 box. I don't think gdb ever
got tested with it.

christos