Bug#397513: segmentation fault on 'rm'

[Juan Manuel Cardenas Talavera]

Package: coreutils
Version: 5.97-5.1

Replaces: textutils, shellutils, fileutils, stat, debianutils (<= 2.3.1), dpkg (<< 1.13.2)
Provides: textutils, shellutils, fileutils
Pre-Depends: libacl1 (>= 2.2.11-1), libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6), libselinux1 (>= 1.32)

trying to use rm as a normal user or root this is the message:

cardenas:~/Desktop# rm
Segmentation fault
cardenas:~/Desktop#

This is the output of the strace tool:

cardenas:~/Desktop# ./strace rm
execve("/bin/rm", ["rm"], [/* 30 vars */]) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="cardenas", ...}) = 0
brk(0)                                  = 0x8051000
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
mmap2(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f1f000
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)      = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=44077, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 44077, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7f14000
close(3)                                = 0
access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK)      = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\240O\1"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1241580, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 1247388, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0xb7de3000
mmap2(0xb7f0a000, 28672, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x127) = 0xb7f0a000
mmap2(0xb7f11000, 10396, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f11000
close(3)                                = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7de2000
mprotect(0xb7f0a000, 20480, PROT_READ)  = 0
set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xb7de28e0, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0
munmap(0xb7f14000, 44077)               = 0
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
+++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
Process 3339 detached
cardenas:~/Desktop#

This happen too with 'mv', 'dd', 'chmod', 'sleep', and others binaries from coreutils... but not all the binaries, for example 'cp' works correctly...

the impossibility on running 'mv' or 'rm' makes impossible to run apt-get or any compilation of any source package...

my Kernel: Linux cardenas 2.6.18-1-686 #1 SMP Sat Oct 21 17:21:28 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
my shared C library Version: 2.3.6.ds1-7

regards

juan cardenas