aurora:~/strobe# gdb strobe
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(no debugging symbols found)...
(gdb) run pdxnet.com
Starting program: /root/strobe/strobe pdxnet.com
strobe (c) 1994 *Proff* All Rights Reserved.
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x8048ce5 in attempt_clear ()
(gdb) disassemble
[snip snip snip snip snip]
0x8048d4e <attempt_clear+158>: movl $0x9,%ecx
0x8048d53 <attempt_clear+163>: repz movsl %ds:(%esi),%es:(%edi)
0x8048d55 <attempt_clear+165>: leal 0xffffffe4(%ebp),%esp
0x8048d58 <attempt_clear+168>: popl %ebx
0x8048d59 <attempt_clear+169>: popl %esi
0x8048d5a <attempt_clear+170>: popl %edi
0x8048d5b <attempt_clear+171>: movl %ebp,%esp
0x8048d5d <attempt_clear+173>: popl %ebp
0x8048d5e <attempt_clear+174>: ret
0x8048d5f <attempt_clear+175>: nop
etc etc..
hehe
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 4 Dec 1996 21:31:37 -0500 (EST)
From: Gregory Maxwell <nullc@treco.net>
To: KRSE <kota@pdxnet.com>
Cc: Linux Administrative <linux-admin@vger.rutgers.edu>
Subject: Re: your mail
On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, KRSE wrote:
>
> Does anyone know what is the cause of all of these seg faults i've been
> having? When using the program "strobe" (a port scanner) and several
> others, They bomb out right here...
>
> BTW, I have libc 5.4.13 :) and am using a heavily modified ver of slack
> 3.1
>
> (this is the last 5 something line output from strace)
> close(4) = 0
> gettimeofday({849751980, 653293}, NULL) = 0
> time(NULL) = 849751980
> time(NULL) = 849751980
> gettimeofday({849751980, 655405}, NULL) = 0
> --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
> +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
>
Hey! The same thing happens to me.. I've also got 5.4.13 and a heavily
modified vers of slackware (I think my was orignaly 2 though.. but I've
upgraded EVERYTING)... I'm running 2.1.14.. I posted this same question
to linux-kernel... Didn't get any help though.. Fetchmail does the same
thing to me.. I suspect it might be 2.1.x kernels.. But I'm too lazy to
go back to check... BTW- Fetchmail does not, however, segfault after a
gettimeofday()...
(If you find anything out pass it onto me if you can.. Without fetchmail
working I'm getting like 200messages a day straight into my inbox (I've
gotta use popclient cause fetchmail wont work.. so proc mail wont work))..