segmentation error

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 4:01 AM, roland <roland at cat.be> wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:05:57 +0100, Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 12:04:08 +0100, roland wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everybody,
>>>
>>> First of all, my best wishes for 2009. May all the problems you couldn't
>>> solve in 2008, find  a solution in 2009. Good health, loving children,
>>> many friends.
>>>
>>> Now my problem:
>>> '
>>> when I type t
>>> ar' I get a 'segmentation error'
>>> I thought, maybe there is an error in tar, so I copied it from another
>>> installation. Same error.
>>>
>>> Does it sound familiar to somebody?
>>
>> Follow the instructions at
>>
>>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces
>>
>> and then post the detailed backtrace here. "tar" uses several
>> libraries. It can be anything, even unstable hardware (such as bad RAM
>> chips).
>>
>
> This is the output I get:
>
> [root at tbred roland]# gdb /bin/tar
> GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.159.el4rh)
> Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
> welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
> conditions.
> Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
> There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
> This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...
> (no debugging symbols found)
> Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1".
>
> (gdb) run --cvzf buXXX b*
> Starting program: /bin/tar --cvzf buXXX b*
> (no debugging symbols found)
> (no debugging symbols found)
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x0806d4e6 in ?? ()
> (gdb) Quit
> (gdb)
>
>
> I do not see much of a story here. I hope you do.

Run:

debuginfo-install tar

and repeat

poc