Re: Solaris -> Linux NFS errors, segfaulting programs

Matthew Wilcox (Matthew.Wilcox@genedata.com)
Fri, 16 Jul 1999 23:22:23 +0200

On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 04:26:12PM -0400, Scott McDermott wrote:
> I seem to have problems compiling programs hosted on NFS mounted
> filesystems. A compile of Qmail works, but some of the binaries
> segfault. A compile of Mutt ends with ld segfaulting during the final
> link, and the make giving errors like "invalid string offset" in
> sections of object code.

[...]

> The mounts are from Solaris boxes running SunOS 5.5.1. Mount options
> are rw,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,hard. Kernel is 2.2.10.

There's your problem; this is a known bug in Solaris 2.5; look it up
in SunSolve.

-- 
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
"Windows and MacOS are products, contrived by engineers in the service of
specific companies. Unix, by contrast, is not so much a product as it is a
painstakingly compiled oral history of the hacker subculture." - N Stephenson


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