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- From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: uucico ... Segmentation Fault??
- Date: 24 Dec 1992 01:57:44 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
- Lines: 39
- Message-ID: <1hbqhoINNhvl@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
- References: <marcf.725178847@yorku.ca> <1992Dec24.072833.25824@cbfsb.cb.att.com>
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- wto@cbnewsg.cb.att.com (William T. O Connell) writes:
-
- >In article <marcf.725178847@yorku.ca> marcf@nexus.yorku.ca (Marc G Fournier) writes:
- >>Hi...
- >>
- >> I've started playing with uucico in the 0.99 version of
- >>the SLS distribution...except there is a slight problem...I get
- >>segmentation violations :( If I just type uucico alone, I get
- >>one.
- >>
- >> I've downloaded the source and will recompile it tonight...
- >>but I'm kinda curious as to why the binaries don't work
- >>
- >>thanks..
- >>
- >>Marc
-
- >I had the same problems with .99, not only with 'uucico' but
- >also with 'uucp'. I done loaded the source and tried compiling
- >it with -fwritable-strings, But still gave me sig 11's.
-
- >After using gdb, determined it was dumping core in the system
- >call 'sigaction()' called by sys1.c. To get around this, I
- >changed the #define HASSIGACTION (spelling?) in conf.h from 1
- >to 0. This caused gcc to use one of a couple other signal functions.
- >It seemed to have fix my segmentation violation problems.
-
- >Has anyone else run across sigaction() failing, and if so, do
- >you know why?
-
- >- Bill O'Connell wto@ihlpx.att.com
-
- Sigaction has bugs in libc.so.4.1. The new release will fix that. You can get
- a temporary fix by ftp'ing into tsx-11.mit.edu and cd'ing into
- /pub/linux/GCC
-
- and getting libc.so.4.2.Z
-
- James
-