well, i checked ...... and all symlinks look ok
thanks! but still stumped :-s
richard
--On Monday, June 10, 2002 10:40 AM -0700 Eric Fixler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've had bus errors in Perl when the symlinks that point to /private/etc
> from /etc were accidentally deleted, probably from my perl code altho I'm
> not sure how.
>
> You may want to check to see that they are still there and recreate them
> (as root, via sudo) if they're not.
>
> eric
>
>
>
>
> On Monday, June 10, 2002, at 09:34 AM, R Blake wrote:
>
>> hi all,
>>
>> i've built Perl 5.8.0RC1 on OSX Server 10.1.4 successfully .......
>>
>> just about everything seems to run fine. modperl2 is installed on a
>> working Apache2.0.36 as well ....... but not without a minor fix .......
>>
>> i get a "bus error" when running the following test script:
>>
>> -------------------- test.pl ----------------
>> use strict;
>> use Socket;
>>
>> my $localhost_addr = pack('C4', 127, 0, 0, 1);
>> my $default_localhost = gethostbyaddr($localhost_addr,
>> Socket::AF_INET()) || 'localhost';
>>
>> print "localhost=$default_localhost\n";
>> -------------------- test.pl ----------------
>>
>>>
>>> [root@server]perl test.pl
>>> Bus error
>>
>> here's the stack trace of the crash:
>>
>> **********
>>
>> OS Version: 10.1.4 (Build 5Q125)
>> Host: server.internal.net
>>
>> Command: perl
>> PID: 20193
>>
>> Exception: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (0x0001)
>> Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE (0x0002) at 0x700c92fc
>>
>> Thread 0 Crashed:
>> # 0 0x70003b08 in memmove
>> # 1 0x00008540 in __res_vinit
>> # 2 0x00007624 in gen_res_get
>> # 3 0x000058f0 in net_data_create
>> # 4 0x0000582c in __net_data_init
>> # 5 0x00004340 in init
>> # 6 0x00003254 in gethostbyaddr
>> # 7 0x004658b8 in Perl_pp_ghostent
>> # 8 0x004656e4 in Perl_pp_ghbyaddr
>> # 9 0x003f8120 in Perl_runops_standard
>> # 10 0x00373e7c in S_run_body
>> # 11 0x003739c4 in perl_run
>> # 12 0x00001c20 in main
>> # 13 0x00001a54 in _start
>> # 14 0x00001884 in start
>>
>> PPC Thread State:
>> srr0: 0x70003b08 srr1: 0x0000f030 vrsave: 0x00000000
>> xer: 0x00000020 lr: 0x00008540 ctr: 0x70003a00 mq: 0x00000000
>> r0: 0x10020035 r1: 0xbfffe7f0 r2: 0x700c930c r3: 0x700c92fc
>> r4: 0x00a57230 r5: 0x00000000 r6: 0xac1e0a02 r7: 0x00000000
>> r8: 0x00000000 r9: 0x00a57210 r10: 0x00000000 r11: 0x0003350c
>> r12: 0x70003a00 r13: 0x00000000 r14: 0x80008a98 r15: 0x8000219c
>> r16: 0xbfffec28 r17: 0xbfffec48 r18: 0x8000214c r19: 0x00000000
>> r20: 0x00000001 r21: 0x87859393 r22: 0xc24bc195 r23: 0x87859393
>> r24: 0x8000213c r25: 0x00000000 r26: 0xbffff424 r27: 0x00000000
>> r28: 0x00000000 r29: 0x00000000 r30: 0xbfffe833 r31: 0x00007f90
>>
>> **********
>> as this error does *not* occur on a virgin OSX 10.1.5 build (i know, a
>> little apple-n-oranges) something, no doubt, has changed on my system
>> that is causing gethostbyaddr to choke ......
>>
>> unfortunately, i haven't been clever enuf to track down the
>> problem .......
>>
>> any thoughts/suggestions?
>>
>> many thanks!
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