[uClibc]execve segfaults

Erik Andersen andersen at codepoet.org
Wed Jun 26 22:09:01 UTC 2002


On Wed Jun 26, 2002 at 11:55:52PM +0200, Ronald Wahl wrote:
> > You mention you are using kernel 2.4.2....  That really is quite
> > ancient at this point.  Is there any chance you could use
> > something reasonably current, like 2.4.18 or 2.4.19-rc1 to verify
> > if the problem is still present?
> 
> That's not possible without investing much time (which I don't have)
> since we have made a bunch of changes so it runs on our hardware. Newer
> kernels have changed much so that it is not easy to port our stuff to a
> newer kernels. Do you have any hints how I could debug this in an
> effective way? Maybe it is easier for me (as I can reproduce the
> behavior) to find the bug. But for this I need some info where I should
> look.  

Hmm.  Well for starters, you can rule out the shared lib loader 
by compiling busybox staticly (edit busybox/Makefile and set 
DOSTATIC = true) and then testing if you still see the problem.

 -Erik

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