On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 18:49 +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote: > Package: samba > Version: 3.0.20b-1 > > You may have noticed that recently, all or most of your bug reports > from /usr/share/samba/panic-action have had stack traces filled with > ??s instead of useful information. They'll all take this form: > > #0 0xffffe410 in __kernel_vsyscall () > #1 0xb7f293f0 in ?? () > #2 0xb7f29213 in ?? () > #3 0xbf8f7124 in ?? () > #4 0xbf8f7124 in ?? () > #5 0x00000000 in ?? () > > That's because all of samba's binaries are being linked with -pie, > which is breaking gdb (I just filed #346409 there about it). For now > you can make the problem go away by passing --disable-pie to > configure. This misfeature was added upstream in samba 3.0.20.
It was added because pie allows exec shield and address randomisation, which is a security advantage on platforms that include it. Now, I don't know where debian stands on these issues, but that is my understanding of the 'misfeature'. Andrew Bartlett -- Andrew Bartlett http://samba.org/~abartlet/ Authentication Developer, Samba Team http://samba.org Student Network Administrator, Hawker College http://hawkerc.net
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