Disabling password features causes top and ps to fail on some target systems

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Tuesday 31 May 2011 02:54, James Bowlin wrote:
> 
> I'm building a static busybox on a Debian based i486 system.  When I
> tested the busybox binary on an amd64 Gentoo system the top and ps
> commands fail:
> 
> $ ./busybox-3.4 top
> Mem: 3056560K used, 1004520K free, 0K shrd, 162340K buff, 2292844K cached
> CPU: 13.6% usr  4.5% sys  0.0% nic 81.8% idle  0.0% io  0.0% irq  0.0% sirq
> Load average: 0.02 0.11 0.40 1/235 3692
> busybox-3.4: ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/getpagesize.c:32: __getpagesize: Assertion `_rtld_global_ro._dl_pagesize != 0' failed.

This is some sort of problem in libc initialization.

Grepping for "_rtld_global_ro._dl_pagesize" reveals many more cases
of this. Looks like it isn't a busybox problem.

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