aseek-devel  

Re: [aseek-devel] [Fwd: searchd dying]

John Capo
Thu, 16 Aug 2001 06:43:45 -0700

> 
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> [Switching to Thread 1026 (LWP 10170)]
> 0x807c773 in strcpy () at ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c:31
> 31      ../sysdeps/generic/strcpy.c: No such file or directory.
> (gdb) quit
> 

A backtrace would be helpful, the `bt' command.  It appears that
you are stopped in system library code rather than the searchd
code.  The function calling strcpy() is where the problem lies.
Looks like a typical unbounded copy to a fixed size buffer, probably
on the stack.

John Capo
IRBS Engineering, Inc.