[linux-lvm] segfault running vgscan

[Mark J. Bobak]

Use the ldd command.  This 'list dynamic dependencies'.  If a program
has no dynamic dependencies, it's statically linked, by definition.

just 'ldd <name of binary>'.

-Mark

--
Mark J. Bobak
Oracle DBA
mark at bobak.net
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving
 wordy evidence of the fact." -- George Eliot

On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Brad Langhorst wrote:

>
> >Are you linking the tools statically or dynamically?
> > I have seen a
> >seg-fault with the tools that call at_exit() and
> >static linking with glibc -
> >apparently the bug is in glibc, not LVM, and is
> >fixed in newer versions.  I
> >have yet to verify this.
> >=20
> >--=20
> >AJ Lewis
> sorry to be an idiot - i'm not sure how to tell if its
> linked statically or dynamically.  Looking through the
> build messags I see a gcc -shared command in the lib
> building section so I'm guessing dynamic linking but I
> don't really know.
>
> here is my glibc info
>
> # rpm -qa |grep glibc
> compat-glibc-6.2-2.1.3.2
> glibc-common-2.2.4-5
> glibc-devel-2.2.4-5
> glibc-2.2.4-5
> glibc-profile-2.2.4-5
>
> I ran the program using strace...
> but I don't really know what everything means yet.
> It looks to me like it is opening shared libraries and
> allocating memory - but for some reason is not allowed
> to allocate 0x40187000.
> *shrug*
>
> # strace vgscan
> execve("/sbin/vgscan", ["vgscan"], [/* 27 vars */]) =
> 0
> uname({sys="Linux", node="[hostname.removed]", ...}) =
> 0
> brk(0)                                  = 0x804b3e0
> open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY)    = -1 ENOENT
> (No such file or directory)
> open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)      = 3
> fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=38258, ...})
> = 0
> old_mmap(NULL, 38258, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) =
> 0x40017000
> close(3)                                = 0
> open("/lib/liblvm-10.so.1", O_RDONLY)   = 3
> read(3,
> "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\360P\0"...,
> 1024) = 1024
> fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0555, st_size=704519,
> ...}) = 0
> old_mmap(NULL, 189300, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC,
> MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40021000
> mprotect(0x4004b000, 17268, PROT_NONE)  = 0
> old_mmap(0x4004b000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x29000) = 0x4004b000
> old_mmap(0x4004d000, 9076, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
> 0x4004d000
> close(3)                                = 0
> open("/lib/i686/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)   = 3
> read(3,
> "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\340\310"...,
> 1024) = 1024
> fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=5761921,
> ...}) = 0
> old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40050000
> old_mmap(NULL, 1285704, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC,
> MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40051000
> mprotect(0x40182000, 36424, PROT_NONE)  = 0
> old_mmap(0x40182000, 20480, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0x130000) = 0x40182000
> old_mmap(0x40187000, 15944, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
> 0x40187000
> close(3)                                = 0
> --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
> +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
>
>
> __________________________________________________
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger
> http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
>
> _______________________________________________
> linux-lvm mailing list
> linux-lvm at sistina.com
> http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm
> read the LVM HOW-TO at http://www.sistina.com/lvm/Pages/howto.html
>