SEE MESSAGE : 'Can anyone verify a core dump on /sbin/mingetty' for the original post The reason why there is no core dump from /sbin is because I didn't have write access - should have noticed that but there you go. Ok, bit more information: This problem is positive in the following systems: * note there could and probably are more but I've only had word of the following systems being tested Red-Hat 6.0 onwards (not tested any before) upto and including 7.2 Mandrake 8.0 2.4.3-20mdksmp (presumably similar to redhat here) turbolinux 6.0 SCO unix 5.0.5 (this information was quickly gathered by several people; thanks everyone) ---------------------------------------------------- After this discovery KF (dotslashat_private) sent me an email confirming the bug was in getty GETTY DUMP <discovered and posted by KF <dotslashat_private>> # /etc/getty `perl -e 'print "A" x 9000'` Memory fault - core dumped # uname -a SCO_SV unixdev 3.2 5.0.5 i386 rootat_private #/etc/getty `perl -e 'print "A" x 9000'` Memory fault - core dumped rootat_private #uname -a SCO_SV sco 3.2 5.0.6 i386 Getty: Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x40058b66 in getenv () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x40058b66 in getenv () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x400a6bb3 in _IO_file_close_it () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x400ab1f5 in mallopt () from /lib/libc.so.6 #3 0x400a716d in malloc () from /lib/libc.so.6 #4 0x4009998e in fopen () from /lib/libc.so.6 #5 0x0804d029 in send () #6 0x41414141 in ?? () Cannot access memory at address 0x41414141 mingetty: Starting program: /sbin/mingetty `perl -e 'print "A" x 9000'` (no debugging symbols found)... Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. 0x4007bab7 in vfprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x4007bab7 in vfprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6 #1 0x40097722 in vsprintf () from /lib/libc.so.6 #2 0x08048ec9 in alarm () #3 0x41414141 in ?? () Cannot access memory at address 0x41414141 <thanks KF> This is it so far, however if you are running a system with mingetty or getty that's not listed above I would really appreciate further feedback regarding these bugs. Cheers Scott.
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