I thought I have seen it all, but this slaps me in the face. I'm using PPC with GCC-4.1.1. I downloaded the IBM-ppc files to my homedir. And as root I tried to move it from /home to /usr/portage/distfiles both on different partitions. I hear harddisk activity, but that ends with a segmentation fault. The filesystem is ext3. dmesg has no information. The most odd thing is this: (gdb) run /usr/portage/distfiles/ibm-java2-jre-50-linux-ppc.tgz /home/skinkie/. Starting program: /bin/mv /usr/portage/distfiles/ibm-java2-jre-50-linux-ppc.tgz /home/skinkie/. Program exited normally. (gdb) run /home/skinkie/ibm-java2-jre-50-linux-ppc.tgz /usr/portage/distfiles/. Starting program: /bin/mv /home/skinkie/ibm-java2-jre-50-linux-ppc.tgz /usr/portage/distfiles/. Program exited normally. But in terminal: localhost skinkie # mv /usr/portage/distfiles/ibm-java2-jre-50-linux-ppc.tgz /home/skinkie/. localhost skinkie # mv /home/skinkie/ibm-java2-jre-50-linux-ppc.tgz /usr/portage/distfiles/. Segmentation fault (gdb) run /home/skinkie/ibm-java2-jre-50-linux-ppc.tgz /usr/portage/distfiles/. Starting program: /bin/mv /home/skinkie/ibm-java2-jre-50-linux-ppc.tgz /usr/portage/distfiles/. Program exited normally. (i'm going to try to get back to 'stock' gentoo kernel and try again) emerge --info Portage 2.1_rc4-r2 (default-linux/ppc/ppc32, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r3, 2.6.17-rc6-gf678dab9 ppc) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.17-rc6-gf678dab9 ppc 7447A, altivec supported Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.4.3-r1 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r1 dev-util/confcache: 0.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.18.1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r4 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="ppc ~ppc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-g -O2 -mcpu=7450 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -maltivec -mabi=altivec" CHOST="powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-g -O2 -mcpu=7450 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -maltivec -mabi=altivec" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache confcache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://10.0.0.205/gentoo ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/overlays/ebuildexchange /usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://10.0.0.205/gentoo-portage" USE="ppc X alsa altivec bitmap-fonts bzip2 cli crypt curl dbus dri dv encode fbcon ffmpeg flac fortran glitz gsm gtk2 ieee1394 ipv6 isdnlog jpeg lcms mad mmap mp3 ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ogg pcre perl pic png pppd python readline reflection session speex spell spl ssl tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userlocales vorbis xfs xorg xprint xv zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_evdev kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_fbdev video_cards_radeon" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Now running vanilla-2.6.17-rc6. Still the move via gdb works, the native move still results in a fault.
coreutils version?
coreutils-5.96
run it through `strace` and `ltrace` and see if it still segfaults
Created attachment 89482 [details] Ltrace Strace does the job like gdb. ltrace makes do the segmentation fault too. As attached.
give 5.97 a spin
