On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Bob Proulx wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Bash Version: 2.05b Patch Level: 0 ... When trying to run a while loop, bash seldom segfaults. The behavior is not constant. The machine is in fact an AMD 64x2, here is a extract from dmesg: ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ while : ; do true ;done Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped)Unfortunately that is such a non-specific error that only non-specific responses can be given. Obviously such a simple case should not produce a segmentation fault and does not on most systems or there would be many reports. I am also running bash-2.05b from Debian Sarge/Stable on amd64 and am not experiencing this problem. Therefore I conjecture that this is something specific to your particular environment, compiler, library, or other. Probably simply rebuilding the previous source with a fresh environment would avoid or move this problem around. Since you are running FreeBSD you might be able to find OS specific help from a FreeBSD support group. I suggest you ask there and see what other users suggest. Personally I think you just have a bad build and if you can get a better build you will avoid this problem.
I did rebuild bash2 and experienced the same problem. I just upgraded to bash3, as suggested by another person in response to my bug, and the problem is now gone.
Thanks Mathieu Vanasse Nuage Informatique Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Bug-bash mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-bash
