Re: Strange core dump in newfs_lfs(8).

On Monday 11 December 2006 19:20, Jochen Kunz wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I tried to use LFS on one of my hp700 machines. newfs_lfs(8) dumped core
> with a segmentation fault immediately. ktrace(1) showed that this must
> happen quite early in startup. I recompiled newfs_lfs(8) with a debug
> printf(3) as the first statement in main(): Segmentation fault (core
> dumped), without any output. I renamed main() to main2(), added a new
> main() that does nothing else as a debug printf(3) and then calling
> main2(). This time I get output from the debug printf(3) in main() but
> still as soon as main2() (the real main()) is called: Segmentation fault
> (core dumped). I suspected some stack interaction and moved all
> variables to the outside of main() to make them glabal, i.e. BSS instead
> stack. Still the same. Segmentation fault as soon as main() is caled.
> gdb(1) doesn't work and now I am lost. I don't have an idea what is
> happenig here. Version is -current as of Friday and I had the same
> problem with a build from late November.

Increase your stack limit.

Nick