general protection message in /var/log/messages .... ?

Tom London selinux at gmail.com
Sun Jul 13 16:18:42 UTC 2008


On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 6:00 AM, Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 12 July 2008 16:40:03 Tom London wrote:
>> Jul 12 12:13:40 localhost kernel:<6>python[3934] general protection
>> ip:82f934 sp:bfd4ca30 error:0 in libglib-2.0.so.0.1703.0.#prelink#.MFCrdJ
>> (deleted)[7f8000+e1000]
>
> This sounds like a python program that uses libglib was sent a sigsegv
> (probably due to a bug in libglib) and it did not handle it by the time the
> kernel though its should and the kernel was forcing it out.
>
> I'd guess that something might be wrong in libglib.
>
> -Steve

Thanks.

Not quite sure where/if to BZ.....

The reference to "#prelink#": is it possible that prelink caused this
while it was "moving the carpets under our feet"?

I'll put this under glib2-devel for safe keeping.

tom
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Tom London




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