On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 13:49, Bret Hughes wrote:
> > I have some strange happenings on one of my machines this morning
> > looking around I found that one repeatebale symtom is that cat coredumps
> > everytime it runs. I am no c coder so if anyone can give me a tip as to
> > what might be screwing up I would appreciate it.
> >
> > Here is an strace
> >
> > [root@ele3c display]# strace cat running
...
> > open("/lib/i686/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3
...
> > old_mmap(0x4014f000, 14120, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
> > MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANON
> > YMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4014f000
> > close(3) = 0
> > --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
> > +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++OK, so cat segfaults immediately after loading the i686 glibc. So, have you recently changed kernels? If so, did you install an i686 arch kernel? Or maybe you loaded glibc-...i686 on a non-i686 machine? Or maybe it's the reason so many mysterious things happen... and the machine was hacked and modified.
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