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Date:      Wed, 20 Jun 2001 02:55:43 +0200
From:      Cynic <cynic@mail.cz>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   whereis dumps core
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.2.20010620023743.0434e6b8@mail.cz>

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anyone knows why $subject should be happening? it doesn't 
crash with every search, but if it fails once with a lookup 
for a certain file, if fails with it always. as you can see
below, whereis whereis is fine, whereis bash crashes.

I should note that I noticed it 10 minutes ago. I don't think 
it was happening before, but it just might: one of my 
colleagues turned the plug off this machine couple of hours 
ago... but fsck went fine... so?

[cynic /]$ uname -a
FreeBSD freepuppy.infosite.cz 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #3: Thu Jun 14 14:18:03 CEST 2001     cynic@freepuppy.local:/usr/src/sys/compile/FREEPUPPY  i386

[cynic /]$ whereis bash
Segmentation fault
bash: /usr/local/bin/bash /usr/local/man/man1/bash.1.gz

[cynic /]$ whereis whereis
whereis: /usr/bin/whereis /usr/share/man/man1/whereis.1.gz /usr/src/usr.bin/whereis

[cynic /]$ whereis apxs
Segmentation fault
apxs: /usr/local/sbin/apxs /usr/local/man/man8/apxs.8.gz

[cynic /]$ whereis bash
Segmentation fault
bash: /usr/local/bin/bash /usr/local/man/man1/bash.1.gz

[cynic /]$ whereis whereis
whereis: /usr/bin/whereis /usr/share/man/man1/whereis.1.gz /usr/src/usr.bin/whereis

ummm... looks like the FreeBSD whereis is actually a perl 
script, so it's perl that is dumping core. I haven't touched 
perl on this machine, but just in case:

[cynic /]$ perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=freebsd, osvers=4.0-current, archname=i386-freebsd
    uname='FreeBSD freefall.FreeBSD.org 4.0-current FreeBSD 4.0-current #0: $Date$'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='undef', gccversion=2.95.2 19991024 (release)
    cppflags=''
    ccflags =''
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=undef, usevfork=true
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags ='-Wl,-E -lperl -lm '
    libpth=/usr/lib
    libs=-lm -lc -lcrypt
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.3
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' -Wl,-R/usr/lib'
    cccdlflags='-DPIC -fpic', lddlflags='-Wl,-E -shared -lperl -lm '


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Built under freebsd
  Compiled at Apr 21 2001 08:25:58
  @INC:
    /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach
    /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd
    /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
    .




cynic@mail.cz
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