tag 18350 notabug close 18350 stop On 08/29/2014 12:40 AM, David King wrote: > I have recently upgraded from Ubuntu 10.?? to 12.?? to 14.04. > > Anytime I run "/bin/cat", it segfaults: > > king@cloud-laptop:~/workspace$ cat foo > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > > king@cloud-laptop:~/workspace$ file /bin/cat > /bin/cat: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), > dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.24, > BuildID[sha1]=0c0f211bfc6205fcb4c9f68ff91ebc6920d3a827, stripped > > > king@cloud-laptop:~/workspace$ uname -a > Linux cloud-laptop 3.2.0-67-generic-pae #101-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 15 18:04:54 > UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
This probably isn't a bug with cat or we would have heard about it long ago. I'd verify that the cat binary is OK using: debsums or dpkg --verify coreutils Additionally you could identify where it core dumps like: gdb -args cat foo bt thanks, Pádraig.