The problem was a corrupt share library file, but it wasn't ld.so - it
was libc.so (at least sum said it was different from the file on the cd
and copying it over fixed the problem.
Thanks to:
sun2 <moshe.meirzada@elex.co.il>
weitzel@burke.com (David Weitzel>
mal@adc.com (Michael A Leo)
> Subject: problem - dumping core on every command
> Date: Tue, 03 Jan 95 17:57:23 -0800
>
> "all of a sudden" a 4.1.2 system starts dumping core on every command.
> This is just like a problem I had long ago with ldconfig. Problem was
> that giving ldconfig a bogus directory corrupted the cache and the
> result is that every command that uses a shared library dumps core.
>
> Well, this is now happening on boot, ldconfig called with no arguments
> - ldconfig dumps, no ld.so.cache gets built and almost every command
> dumps core.
>
> trace ldconfig shows it happening with a sig4 just after it trys to
> read the last directory and closes the last file.
>
> trace ldconfig on a working system shows the next thing is a rename of
> the temp file to ld.so.cache.
>
> Any ideas?
> Thanks,
-- Sid Shapiro -- Computer Associates, Inc. sid@ingres.com (510)748-3470
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