[Clfs-support] sysklogd-1.5 segfault

[jignesh gangani]

Hello All,


On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 4:47 PM, mike <spam at kleiderschrank51.de> wrote:
> jignesh gangani schrieb:
>>
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I am following CLFS-1.1.0 SVN for pure64 version. I have completed my
>> build.
>> But at the time of booting, I got following message:
>>
>> Starting Kernel logger: sysklogd segfault at 0 rip 0xzzzzzzzz Error 4.
>>
>> And it stops. The machine is not hung as I can see it still responds
>> to keystrokes
>> but it doesn't go further either. When I was looking on the net for
>> the solution I found
>> that it might be referring to hard coded path to System.map
>> (/usr/src/linux/System.map)
>> I booted from a livecd and removed the syslog from startup sequence.
>> Then after booting
>> when I manually ran sysklogd with debugging on it was referring to
>> correct System.map.
>> So reference to incorrect System.map is not an issue.
>>
>> Does anybody know the solution? Has anybody came across this error?
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>>
>
> hi,
>
> do you 'stripped-all' you libs complete? when so, then go back and compile
> all packages again. when not, try a init=/bin/sh at the kernenl command line
> in grub. then you must mount at first /proc & /sys, then the / filesystem in
> rw mode. then you can look waths going on. please report..
>
> greetings
> mike


After adding -x option to klogd in  init script of syslog, it worked
fine. This does
look like an issue with System Map.

Thanks Mike for your prompt support.
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Jignesh D. Gangani