[systemd-devel] SegFaults?!

Lennart Poettering lennart at poettering.net
Thu May 3 09:33:42 PDT 2012


On Thu, 03.05.12 18:14, Sven Anders (anders at anduras.de) wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> I'm getting some SegFaults, which I can not explain. I think the problem
> lies somewhere in my configuration or systemd makes some assumptions and
> my system does not fulfill these requirements.
> 
> Nevertheless, I think the tools should not SegFault but issue an error
> instead. By now I have no real idea where the problem lies.
> 
> If I run the tool in valgrind, they work.
> 
> Do you have any idea?

Hmm, I don't see how a system call would result in a SIGSEGV. This is
really weird...

The fd[] array passed to pipe() is allocated on the stack. This suggests
that your stack is getting corrupted somehow.

Do things work correctly if you run stuff with --no-pager?

Lennart

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