irssi-0.8.11 installed. It has happened five times so far. I will try to analyze the core file next time it dumps. It can be from a few days to some months before the crashes. I had no problems for years before that. The machine is quite slow, (E250 with 2x300MHz UltraSpoarc II and 768MB RAM) so I have not kept the system very up to date. Either my machine is a bit unstable (but no other apps crash), or maybe someone tries to execute x86 code through a buffer overflow, or something else goes wrong.. uname -a: Linux annan 2.6.15 #4 SMP PREEMPT Sat Feb 4 22:45:00 CET 2006 sparc64 sun4u TI UltraSparc II (BlackBird) GNU/Linux Emerge --info: Portage 2.1.2.9 (default-linux/sparc/sparc64/2006.1/2.4, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r2, 2.6.15 sparc64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15 sparc64 sun4u Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 04 Jul 2007 07:20:01 +0000 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.61 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1, 1.10 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.26-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="sparc" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-g -O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc" CHOST="sparc-unknown-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /opt/glftpd/etc /opt/glftpd/ftp-data /var/bind" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mcpu=ultrasparc" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.gentoo.no/ http://mirror.pudas.net/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" 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 --filter=H_**/files/digest-*" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="apache2 berkdb bidi bitmap-fonts calendar cli cracklib crypt cups dri eds emboss encode enscript esd fbcon foomaticdb fortran gcc64 gdbm gif iconv icq idn imlib isdnlog jpeg libwww mad midi mikmod motif mpeg msn mudflap ncurses nls no-htdocs offensive ogg old-crypt old-linux opengl openmp oss pam pcre perl png posix pppd python qt3 readline reflection sdl session silvercity simplexml sockets sparc spl sqlite ssl tcpd tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts vhosts vorbis xml xorg xv zlib" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="dummy fbdev glint mach64 mga r128 radeon sunbw2 suncg14 suncg3 suncg6 sunffb sunleo tdfx v4l voodoo" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Reopen if you can reproduce this after you've recompiled much of your system with a supported toolchain. You gcc/glibc/binutils/linux-headers versions are unsupported.