Re: Problem setting up printer on FC3

[Tim Waugh]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 06:53:35PM +0000, Adam Mercer wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 09:08:38 +0000, Tim Waugh  wrote:
>
> Tim
> > Well, does that command also fail when you run it directly as root?:
> >
> > perl -e 'ioctl(STDIN,0x84005001,$result);print $result' </dev/usb/lp0
>
> [root@skymoo ~]# perl -e 'ioctl(STDIN,0x84005001,$result);print
> $result' </dev/usb/lp0
> Segmentation fault
>
> Yes, this is with kernel-2.6.9-1.681_FC3, the same also happens with a
> home brew 2.6.9-ac16

Well, that really looks like a kernel oops.  Sure there's not one in
dmesg output?  I don't really know what else would cause that.

You could try 'ulimit -c unlimited' and run gdb on /usr/bin/perl and
the resulting core file; that might give more clues.

Tim.
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