segmentation fault

[Gilles Espinasse]

Selon David Henderson <dhenderson at digital-pipe.com>:

> On 07/10/2011 05:29 AM, Gilles Espinasse wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Henderson"<dhenderson at digital-pipe.com>
> > To: "BusyBox Developer List"<busybox at busybox.net>
> > Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2011 7:50 PM
> > Subject: segmentation fault
> >
> >
> >> Gang,
> >>
> >>       I've added some new kernel modules to the file system so I tried to
> >> update the modules.dep file using depmod, but I get a "segmentation
> >> fault" when trying to execute it.  I even tried using the '-ae'
> >> parameters (although they aren't listed in the help for the applet).
> >> Any thoughts on how to fix this? I'm running BB 1.81.1.
> >>
> > Wow BB-1.81!
> > Anyway, you may try with strace to see where the segfault happen.
> > And which config option is selected for modprobe?
> >
> > Gilles
>
> Hey Gilles, thanks for the help.  Yeah I'm working with the most
> advanced version of busybox, 1.81 lol!  Good tip using strace - I ended
> up tracing it to a couple of invalid symlinks and have resolved the
> problem.  Thanks a million!
>
> Dave
>

Probably usefull to report where the invalid symlinks were incorrectly handled?
modprobe may report something like 'find not found' earlier instead of blindly
segfaulting.

Gilles