FC2 and valgrind

[Satish Balay]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Kai-Min E. Sung wrote:

> Anyone able to get Valgrind to work with Fedora Core 2? All I get are Segmentation Faults:
>
> # /usr/local/bin/valgrind --tool=corecheck ps
> Segmentation fault

It needs multiple things:

- You'll need a CVS version (the last I checked)
- vdso has to be disabled in kernel

   sysctl -w kernel.vdso=0

- If you manage to install as rpm - disable prelink for valgrind
   i.e add the following to /etc/prelink.conf

-b /usr/lib/valgrind

Satish