I looked some more and it looks possible that I do have misconfigured quota, like you suspected. However, why does only dash blow up?
Hopefully problem disappears once I get around to fixing quota, until then I can manage well with quota off (unless you want to poke at this more. :) On Wed, 9 May 2012 06:24:22 -0500 Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> wrote: > Alas. Does the full output from "strace -f dash" clarify anything? > tuotila@vicente:~ $ head -70 dash.strace execve("/bin/dash", ["dash"], [/* 19 vars */]) = 0 brk(0) = 0x637000 access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) mmap(NULL, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fa07d138000 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=15071, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 15071, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x7fa07d134000 close(3) = 0 access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap", F_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\2\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0>\0\1\0\0\0\240\355\1\0\0\0\0\0"..., 832) = 832 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1437064, ...}) = 0 mmap(NULL, 3545160, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x7fa07cbbb000 mprotect(0x7fa07cd14000, 2093056, PROT_NONE) = 0 mmap(0x7fa07cf13000, 20480, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x158000) = 0x7fa07cf13000 mmap(0x7fa07cf18000, 18504, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fa07cf18000 close(3) = 0 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fa07d133000 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fa07d132000 mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x7fa07d131000 arch_prctl(ARCH_SET_FS, 0x7fa07d132700) = 0 mprotect(0x7fa07cf13000, 16384, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x7fa07d13a000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 munmap(0x7fa07d134000, 15071) = 0 getpid() = 20389 rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {0x40f270, ~[RTMIN RT_1], SA_RESTORER, 0x7fa07cbed230}, NULL, 8) = 0 geteuid() = 1001 brk(0) = 0x637000 brk(0x658000) = 0x658000 getppid() = 20388 getcwd("/home/tuotila", 4096) = 14 ioctl(0, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0 ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, NULL, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x40f270, ~[RTMIN RT_1], SA_RESTORER, 0x7fa07cbed230}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, NULL, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGQUIT, {SIG_IGN, ~[RTMIN RT_1], SA_RESTORER, 0x7fa07cbed230}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, NULL, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {SIG_IGN, ~[RTMIN RT_1], SA_RESTORER, 0x7fa07cbed230}, NULL, 8) = 0 open("/dev/tty", O_RDWR) = 3 fcntl(3, F_DUPFD, 10) = 10 close(3) = 0 fcntl(10, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0 ioctl(10, TIOCGPGRP, [20388]) = 0 getpgrp() = 20388 rt_sigaction(SIGTSTP, NULL, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGTSTP, {SIG_IGN, ~[RTMIN RT_1], SA_RESTORER, 0x7fa07cbed230}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGTTOU, NULL, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGTTOU, {SIG_IGN, ~[RTMIN RT_1], SA_RESTORER, 0x7fa07cbed230}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGTTIN, NULL, {SIG_DFL, [], 0}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGTTIN, {SIG_DFL, ~[RTMIN RT_1], SA_RESTORER, 0x7fa07cbed230}, NULL, 8) = 0 setpgid(0, 20389) = 0 ioctl(10, TIOCSPGRP, [20389]) = 0 wait4(-1, 0x7fff6bc6708c, WNOHANG|WSTOPPED, NULL) = -1 ECHILD (No child processes) stat("/var/mail/tuotila", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=1654678, ...}) = 0 write(2, "dash: 2: ", 9dash: 2: ) = 9 write(2, "Syntax error: \"(\" unexpected (ex"..., 44Syntax error: "(" unexpected (expecting ")")) = 44 write(2, "\n", 1 ) = 1 wait4(-1, 0x7fff6bc6708c, WNOHANG|WSTOPPED, NULL) = -1 ECHILD (No child processes) stat("/var/mail/tuotila", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=1654678, ...}) = 0 write(2, "dash: 2: ", 9dash: 2: ) = 9 write(2, "Syntax error: \"(\" unexpected (ex"..., 44Syntax error: "(" unexpected (expecting ")")) = 44 write(2, "\n", 1 ) = 1 wait4(-1, 0x7fff6bc6708c, WNOHANG|WSTOPPED, NULL) = -1 ECHILD (No child processes) stat("/var/mail/tuotila", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=1654678, ...}) = 0 write(2, "dash: 2: ", 9dash: 2: ) = 9 write(2, "Syntax error: \"(\" unexpected (ex"..., 44Syntax error: "(" unexpected (expecting ")")) = 44 > Please attach full "dmesg" output from booting and reproducing this. 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Probing ports directly. [ 0.282468] i8042.c: No controller found. [ 0.282621] mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice [ 0.282689] rtc_cmos: probe of rtc_cmos failed with error -16 [ 0.282717] cpuidle: using governor ladder [ 0.282723] cpuidle: using governor menu [ 0.282731] No iBFT detected. [ 0.283085] TCP cubic registered [ 0.283210] NET: Registered protocol family 10 [ 0.284057] Mobile IPv6 [ 0.284064] NET: Registered protocol family 17 [ 0.284157] PM: Resume from disk failed. [ 0.284174] registered taskstats version 1 [ 0.284194] XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/2049 [ 0.284199] XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vbd/2050 [ 0.284204] XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/vif/0 [ 0.284209] XENBUS: Device with no driver: device/console/0 [ 0.284230] /build/buildd-linux-2.6_2.6.32-43-amd64-GXfNMa/linux-2.6-2.6.32/debian/build/source_amd64_none/drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0) [ 0.284268] Initalizing network drop monitor service [ 0.284334] Freeing unused kernel memory: 592k freed [ 0.284544] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 4240k [ 0.421358] udev[56]: starting version 164 [ 0.721870] Initialising Xen virtual ethernet driver. [ 2.555446] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds [ 2.555470] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. [ 6.823062] udev[151]: starting version 164 [ 7.850267] input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input1 [ 8.489084] Error: Driver 'pcspkr' is already registered, aborting... [ 9.454951] Adding 524280k swap on /dev/xvda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:524280k SS [ 10.313064] EXT3 FS on xvda1, internal journal [ 23.484987] eth0: no IPv6 routers present [13900.569665] ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team [1137306.750725] hrtimer: interrupt took 22143565 ns -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org