Re: Current CVS tip segfaulting

Please recompile with debug symbols and report back the stack trace. 
See the faq on running debug.


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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Hackers,
> 
> In current (as of a couple hours ago) clean CVS tip sources, without any
> of my local changes, I'm getting a postmaster segfault when trying to
> connect to a non existant database.  The generated core file does not
> seem to contain any useful information.  The first time I saw this I
> managed to PANIC the system -- I can't seem to be able to reproduce that
> part.
> 
> (Newly built on an empty vpath, so this should be a case of "make
> distcleaning" ...)
> 
> Core was generated by `postgres: alvherre asd [local] startup
> '.
> Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
> 
> warning: current_sos: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error
> 
> Reading symbols from /lib/libz.so.1...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib/libz.so.1
> Reading symbols from /lib/libreadline.so.4.3...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib/libreadline.so.4.3
> Reading symbols from /lib/libncurses.so.5...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib/libncurses.so.5
> Reading symbols from /lib/libcrypt.so.1...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib/libcrypt.so.1
> Reading symbols from /lib/libresolv.so.2...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib/libresolv.so.2
> Reading symbols from /lib/libnsl.so.1...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib/libnsl.so.1
> Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2
> Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libm.so.6...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libm.so.6
> Reading symbols from /lib/tls/libc.so.6...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> Reading symbols from /lib/libgpm.so.1...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib/libgpm.so.1
> Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib/ld-linux.so.2
> Reading symbols from /lib/libnss_files.so.2...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib/libnss_files.so.2
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-15.so...done.
> Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-15.so
> Reading symbols from /usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-1.so...done.
> Loaded symbols for /usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-1.so
> 0x00000000 in ?? ()
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x00000000 in ?? ()
> 
> -- 
> Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>)
> "The only difference is that Saddam would kill you on private, where the
> Americans will kill you in public" (Mohammad Saleh, 39, a building contractor)
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