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bug#18350: /bin/cat segfault
From: |
Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
bug#18350: /bin/cat segfault |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Aug 2014 11:27:33 +0100 |
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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:
>
> address@hidden:~/workspace$ cat foo
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>
> address@hidden:~/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
>
>
> address@hidden:~/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.