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Re: [PLUG] what would cause this...?
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On 31 Jul, 2006, at 15:37, Gary Coulbourne wrote:
On Jul 31, 2006, at 3:31 PM, George Gallen wrote:
but no matter which directory you cd to, if you 'ls' you would get
a Segment Fault
if you did a "ps -ef" it would only show you a 3 or so processes
(even as root)
But If I ftp'd in, I could ls directories fine.
I would suspect that the c library (/lib/libc.so) was corrupted...
ftp usually has it's own copy, and so connections through there
would work while ordinary logins would have trouble. I've seen
machines where someone tried to upgrade libc and screwed it up, and
they almost always show the behavior you describe.
Was someone in the process of doing an upgrade of any sort?
As Gary mentioned, a screwed up upgrade is the classic problem.
Both "ps" and "ls" depend on in-core information. If you upgrade
"stuff" but don't reboot (or otherwise reload) the kernel to get the
matching "stuff" loaded, you get very weird results with those two
commands.
T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
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