segmentation error

[roland]

On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:05:57 +0100, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:04:08 +0100, roland wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> First of all, my best wishes for 2009. May all the problems you couldn't
>> solve in 2008, find  a solution in 2009. Good health, loving children,
>> many friends.
>>
>> Now my problem:
>> '
>> when I type t
>> ar' I get a 'segmentation error'
>> I thought, maybe there is an error in tar, so I copied it from another
>> installation. Same error.
>>
>> Does it sound familiar to somebody?
>
> Follow the instructions at
>
>   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces
>
> and then post the detailed backtrace here. "tar" uses several
> libraries. It can be anything, even unstable hardware (such as bad RAM
> chips).
>

This is the output I get:

[root at tbred roland]# gdb /bin/tar
GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.159.el4rh)
Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you  
are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain  
conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)
Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) run --cvzf buXXX b*
Starting program: /bin/tar --cvzf buXXX b*
(no debugging symbols found)
(no debugging symbols found)

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0806d4e6 in ?? ()
(gdb) Quit
(gdb)


I do not see much of a story here. I hope you do.

Thanks
Roland


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