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Bug 119953 - nash coredumps; initrd can not be created.
Summary: nash coredumps; initrd can not be created.
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: mkinitrd
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeremy Katz
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Blocks: FC2Target
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-04-04 03:51 UTC by Aleksey Nogin
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2004-04-11 17:25:35 UTC
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Description Aleksey Nogin 2004-04-04 03:51:17 UTC 
# cd /
# sh -x mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.6.4-1.303custom.img 2.6.4-1.303
...
+ TMPDIR=
+ '[' '!' -d /tmp ']'
+ echo access -w /tmp
+ /sbin/nash --quiet
mkinitrd: line 305:  2702 Done                    echo access -w $t
      2703 Segmentation fault      | /sbin/nash --quiet
+ continue
+ '[' '!' -d /var/tmp ']'
+ echo access -w /var/tmp
+ /sbin/nash --quiet
mkinitrd: line 305:  2704 Done                    echo access -w $t
      2705 Segmentation fault      | /sbin/nash --quiet
+ continue
+ '[' '!' -d /root ']'
+ echo access -w /root
+ /sbin/nash --quiet
mkinitrd: line 305:  2706 Done                    echo access -w $t
      2707 Segmentation fault      | /sbin/nash --quiet
+ continue
+ '[' '!' -d / ']'
+ echo access -w /
+ /sbin/nash --quiet
mkinitrd: line 305:  2708 Done                    echo access -w $t
      2709 Segmentation fault      | /sbin/nash --quiet
+ continue
+ '[' -z '' ']'
+ echo 'no temporary directory could be found'
no temporary directory could be found
+ exit 1
# strace /sbin/nash --quiet
execve("/sbin/nash", ["/sbin/nash", "--quiet"], [/* 51 vars */]) = 0
getppid()                               = 2719
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
# rpm -qf /sbin/nash
mkinitrd-3.5.19-1
Comment 1 Aleksey Nogin 2004-04-05 02:24:57 UTC 
This works OK under 2.6.4-1.305, but does not work under 2.6.4-1.303
(or at least in SELinux enforcing mode). Weird...
Comment 2 Aleksey Nogin 2004-04-06 19:57:57 UTC 
I can not reroduce it under kernel 2.6.4-1.305, and under 2.6.4-1.303
(where I saw it) a lot of weird things were happening. Should this be
considered a kernel-related bug that was already fixed and be closed,
or are you interested in trying to investigate it further?
Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2004-04-11 17:25:35 UTC 
I'm going to guess "bogon kernel" -- if it happens in something newer,
could you reopen?
Comment 4 Yaroslav Popovitch 2004-08-11 15:37:10 UTC 
I got similar bug running nash(initrd) in User Mode Linux environment. 
mkinitrd-3.5.19
I used Linux + uml patch - v2.6.6. My general kernel is FC2 derived 
(kernel 2.6.3-2.1.253)


I found such dependencies. If I compile nash against dynamic libc
library it works without segfault. It crashes when it is linked
statically against dietlibc library.
FYI
GDB output:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xa0290b68 in ?? ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0xa0290b68 in ?? ()
#1  0x0804c740 in __unified_syscall () at i386/unified.S:46

[\u@\h \W]$ strace /bin/nash.static
execve("/bin/nash.static", ["/bin/nash.static"], [/* 26 vars */]) = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++trace output:
Comment 5 Artem B. Bityuckiy 2004-09-09 14:51:30 UTC 
I've also met this bug in User Mode Linux (both UML and host has
2.6.8.1 kernel, Fedora Core 2 was used on both UML and Host)
Comment 6 Arjan van de Ven 2004-09-09 14:56:18 UTC 
UML doesn't support NPTL yet and isn't expected to work with a FC2
userland
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