I think this is probably a very simiilar issue as found on the solaris. The error occurred during asyn3.test. Here is the gdb output
analyze-99.1... Ok async3-1.0... Ok async3-1.1...make: *** [test] Bus error (core dumped) hermes:herm10:/home/ixion/LIB/sqliteSrc/tst>> ls core core hermes:herm10:/home/ixion/LIB/sqliteSrc/tst>> gdb .libs/testfixture GNU gdb 6.3 Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "hppa2.0w-hp-hpux11.11"... (gdb) core-file core Core was generated by `testfixture'. Program terminated with signal 10, Bus error. warning: The shared libraries were not privately mapped; setting a breakpoint in a shared library will not work until you rerun the program. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/dld.sl...done. Reading symbols from /home/ixion/LIB/sqliteSrc/tst/.libs/libsqlite3.sl.8...done. Reading symbols from /usr/local/lib/libtcl8.5.sl...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libpthread.1...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libxnet.2...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libxti.2...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libm.2...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.2...done. Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libdld.2...done. #0 0x00031984 in sqlite3MinimumFileFormat () at ../sqlite-3.5.5/src/os_unix.c:2400 2400 memset(pFile, 0, sizeof(unixFile)); (gdb) info threads * 3 system thread 29226 0x00031984 in sqlite3MinimumFileFormat () at ../sqlite-3.5.5/src/os_unix.c:2400 2 system thread 29237 0x00000000 in ?? () 1 system thread 29234 0xc0055560 in __pthread_start () from /usr/lib/libpthread.1 (gdb) print pFile $1 = (sqlite3_file *) 0x4005787f (gdb) print *pFile $2 = {pMethods = 0x0} (gdb)