Re: gs ghostscript startup crash - v9 detect - libcrypto

Martin Husemann <[email protected]> Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:12:33 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 12:13:31PM +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> Window comes up briefly, then dies.
> What does gdb say?
> 
> Program received signal SIGILL, Illegal instruction.
> 0xeadc62b4 in _sparcv9_vis1_probe () from /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.15
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0xeadc62b4 in _sparcv9_vis1_probe () from /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.15
> #1  0xead130c0 in OPENSSL_cpuid_setup () from /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.15
> 

This is probing for CPU features with an installed signal handler.
You can just continue from gdb.

Martin