Re[2]: Problem with running tests during installing coreutils-5.94

[Philip Rowlands]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006, Adam Waltman wrote:

> k13 coreutils-5.94 # src/shred --remove --zero adam adam1
> Segmentation fault
>
> It seems that he shred itself is the culprit.
> I have no real experience in programming in Linux,
> but I have installed gdb and tried to squeeze something out of it
> without any success. Could you instruct me how to trace this segfault?

You might try
$ gdb -x <( printf "run\nbt" ) --args src/shred --remove --zero adam adam1

and look at the stack trace, or

$ strace src/shred --remove --zero adam adam1

and look what shred does just before crashing.


Cheers,
Phil