Re: [gentoo-user] gzip segmentation fault

2005-07-21 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 10:02, Zac Medico wrote: Glenn Enright wrote: Bugger. was afraid of that. Ive been running gcc3.4 for a while which needs some ~x86 stuff (glibc). Umm... static doesnt change. Strace on gzip isnt very interesting, gunzip gives me a stat64 file error towards the

Re: [gentoo-user] gzip segmentation fault

2005-07-21 Thread Glenn Enright
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:45, Zac Medico wrote: Richard Fish wrote: I will take a look through the gzip source and see if anything interesting shows up. Richard, you are a saint ;-). But remember, he said that gunzip only segfaults with files that he compressed himself which suggests that

Re: [gentoo-user] gzip segmentation fault

2005-07-21 Thread Richard Fish
Glenn Enright wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:45, Zac Medico wrote: Richard Fish wrote: I will take a look through the gzip source and see if anything interesting shows up. Richard, you are a saint ;-). But remember, he said that gunzip only segfaults with files that he

Re: [gentoo-user] gzip segmentation fault

2005-07-21 Thread Glenn Enright
On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:32, Richard Fish wrote: actually turns out that I had an old version of gzip living in /usr/bin for some odd reason. Now that I've removed it and added symlinks to /bin, all my problems have gone away! Sorry for all the hassle guys. My system has been installed for since

Re: [gentoo-user] gzip segmentation fault

2005-07-21 Thread Zac Medico
Glenn Enright wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2005 08:32, Richard Fish wrote: actually turns out that I had an old version of gzip living in /usr/bin for some odd reason. Now that I've removed it and added symlinks to /bin, all my problems have gone away! Sorry for all the hassle guys. My system has

Re: [gentoo-user] gzip segmentation fault

2005-07-20 Thread Glenn Enright
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 00:32, Glenn Enright wrote: On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:56, Zac Medico wrote: That could be a hardware problem. Maybe your cpu is overheating or there's something wrong with your ram. You can use a livecd with memtest86+ to test the ram. Zac Seems odd considering I am

Re: [gentoo-user] gzip segmentation fault

2005-07-20 Thread Zac Medico
Glenn Enright wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 00:32, Glenn Enright wrote: On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:56, Zac Medico wrote: That could be a hardware problem. Maybe your cpu is overheating or there's something wrong with your ram. You can use a livecd with memtest86+ to test the ram. Zac Seems odd

Re: [gentoo-user] gzip segmentation fault

2005-07-20 Thread Glenn Enright
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:33, Zac Medico wrote: Glenn Enright wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 00:32, Glenn Enright wrote: On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:56, Zac Medico wrote: That could be a hardware problem. Maybe your cpu is overheating or there's something wrong with your ram. You can use a livecd with

Re: [gentoo-user] gzip segmentation fault

2005-07-20 Thread Glenn Enright
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 19:33, Zac Medico wrote: Glenn Enright wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 00:32, Glenn Enright wrote: On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 16:56, Zac Medico wrote: That could be a hardware problem. Maybe your cpu is overheating or there's something wrong with your ram. You can use a livecd with

Re: [gentoo-user] gzip segmentation fault

2005-07-20 Thread Zac Medico
Glenn Enright wrote: Not that I wouldve picked, trying with some basic ones now. It would seem that because emerge is still working, that the problems are from when I *make* gz files, rather than outside files from such as portage. The files I make unzip to a zero length file and deliver a

Re: [gentoo-user] gzip segmentation fault

2005-07-20 Thread Zac Medico
Glenn Enright wrote: Ok did this CFLAGS=-pipe -march=pentium4 -O2 emerge -avD zlib gzip and still getting the same errors. normal CFLAGS are as follows CFLAGS=-pipe -w -march=pentium4 -O2 -mfpmath=sse -fomit-frame-pointer -fweb Does busybox gzip work any better? Zac --

Re: [gentoo-user] gzip segmentation fault

2005-07-20 Thread Glenn Enright
On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 21:26, Zac Medico wrote: Does busybox gzip work any better? Zac Yes works just fine. What does that tell you? -- Seeing is believing. You wouldn't have seen it if you hadn't believed it. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gzip segmentation fault

2005-07-20 Thread Zac Medico
Glenn Enright wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 21:26, Zac Medico wrote: Does busybox gzip work any better? Zac Yes works just fine. What does that tell you? You have a workaround ;-). The problem seems to be in glibc (only dependency of gzip, verified by ldd `which gzip`) or your toolchain.

Re: [gentoo-user] gzip segmentation fault

2005-07-20 Thread Richard Fish
Glenn Enright wrote: On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 05:09, Zac Medico wrote: Glenn Enright wrote: On Wed, 20 Jul 2005 21:26, Zac Medico wrote: Does busybox gzip work any better? Zac Yes works just fine. What does that tell you? You have a workaround ;-). The problem

Re: [gentoo-user] gzip segmentation fault

2005-07-20 Thread Zac Medico
Richard Fish wrote: I will take a look through the gzip source and see if anything interesting shows up. Richard, you are a saint ;-). But remember, he said that gunzip only segfaults with files that he compressed himself which suggests that the files are being corrupted when he compresses

[gentoo-user] gzip segmentation fault

2005-07-18 Thread Glenn Enright
gzip seg faults when uncompressing. Man and info pages work fine as do emerges, and after recompiling zlib, glibc and some other stuff, I still have no clue what the problem is. Before you ask I'm not running ypbind, and have a P4 2.6. Any ideas peoples? -- SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS ARE NOT SCABS

Re: [gentoo-user] gzip segmentation fault

2005-07-18 Thread Zac Medico
Glenn Enright wrote: gzip seg faults when uncompressing. Man and info pages work fine as do emerges, and after recompiling zlib, glibc and some other stuff, I still have no clue what the problem is. Before you ask I'm not running ypbind, and have a P4 2.6. Any ideas peoples? That could be a