depmod segfaulting

Andy Green andy at warmcat.com
Wed Aug 29 15:05:30 UTC 2007


Somebody in the thread at some point said:

> 0x0059aee8 in strcmp () from /lib/libc.so.6
> (gdb) bt
> #0  0x0059aee8 in strcmp () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #1  0x0804ba7c in load_section32 (hdr=0xb1601b8, secname=0x8059c47
> "__ksymtab_strings", size=0xbf9510e8,
>     conv=0) at moduleops_core.c:18
> #2  0x0804c064 in load_symbols32 (module=0xadbfe88) at moduleops_core.c:34
> #3  0x0804ae48 in main (argc=2, argv=Cannot access memory at address 0x5aadd37c
> ) at depmod.c:687
> #4  0x00542f70 in __libc_start_main () from /lib/libc.so.6
> #5  0x08048ea1 in _start ()
> #######
> 
> I'm guessing that #3 is the problem (cannot access memory at address).
>  I guess I could file a bug if no one else has any suggestions?

__ksymtab_strings seems to be a section in vmlinux / z... is it possible
that the /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.blah file is unhappy?  Or /boot is not
mounted, /tmp is full, anything like that?

-Andy




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