Re: Exited with status 139

On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> SIGSEGV, ie, bad pointer dereference.  There should be a core dump
> file --- can you provide a stack backtrace from it?

I can try:

# gdb bin/postgres core
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warning: core file may not match specified executable file.
Core was generated by `/db/pgsql/bin/postgres localhost f'.
Program terminated with signal 11, Segmentation fault.
Reading symbols from /lib/libcrypt.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libnsl.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.6...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libutil.so.1...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libreadline.so.3...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libtermcap.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libncurses.so.4...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...done.
Reading symbols from /lib/ld-linux.so.2...done.
#0  0x4013d223 in strncpy (s1=0x8975d60 "", s2=0x402c2d68 "",
n=4294967293)   at ../sysdeps/generic/strncpy.c:82
../sysdeps/generic/strncpy.c:82: No such file or directory.
(gdb) bt
#0  0x4013d223 in strncpy (s1=0x8975d60 "", s2=0x402c2d68 "",
n=4294967293)   at ../sysdeps/generic/strncpy.c:82
#1  0x8110fe5 in varcharout ()
#2  0x808b208 in CopyTo ()
#3  0x808ae4f in DoCopy ()
#4  0x80ec6a8 in ProcessUtility ()
#5  0x80eac88 in pg_exec_query_dest ()
#6  0x80eabe7 in pg_exec_query ()
#7  0x80ebad2 in PostgresMain ()
#8  0x80d61c2 in DoBackend ()
#9  0x80d5da1 in BackendStartup ()
#10 0x80d515a in ServerLoop ()
#11 0x80d4be4 in PostmasterMain ()
#12 0x80ab716 in main ()
#13 0x400f7cb3 in __libc_start_main (main=0x80ab6b0 <main>, argc=5,   argv=0xbffffd14, init=0x8064018 <_init>,
fini=0x812925c<_fini>,   rtld_fini=0x4000a350 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbffffd0c)   at
../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:78
(gdb)

Did I do that right?

- K

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