All coreutils binaries segfault, requiring complete reinstall of linux

[Neal Rhodes]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 10:55:09AM -0400, David Curry wrote:
> Neal Rhodes wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 11:31:42AM +1000, Steffen Kluge wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 20:00 -0400, Neal Rhodes wrote:
> >>    
> >>
> >>>The behavior is that ALL binaries in the coreutils 
> >>>package (ls, ps, mv, rm... really handy)  will "Segmentation Fault".  Even 
> >>>Basename will segfault before it gets to the "Usage:...." display.
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Just a stab in the dark, of course, but did your Progress installation
> >>come with its own libc by any chance? Did the installer add something
> >>like LD_LIBRARY_PATH to root's environment? Or change /etc/ld.so.conf?
> >>
> >>Cheers
> >>Steffen.
> >>    
> >>
> Have you read the "brute force ssh attack" thread and considered the 
> possible applicability of that issue as a explanation of your experiences?

Not exactly, but the discussions of viruses inspired me to load clamav and
indeed, on of the Progress binaries had the Linux.Rst.A virus, and most of 
/bin did also.  

Fortunately, rpm didn't get affected, so I can install that and it seems 
I'm gradually clearing things out and getting commands in /bin working. 
(hint: don't use /bin/cp to copy non-infected binaries!)


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