Segmentation fault

[dingo]

Binary package hint: initramfs-tools

I'm playing round with debootstrap on Kubuntu edgy:
time sudo debootstrap --include=screen,linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic,man-db edgy /var/tftpboot/rootfs/edgy file:////media/cdrom0/

and not being entirely happy that the kernel's not getting installed, I:
sudo chroot /var/tftpboot/rootfs/edgy/
dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic_2.6.17-10.33_i386.deb
which got lots of messages (harmless, I'm sure) about language/locale settings, and ended thus:
Running depmod.
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-10-generic
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: line 21: 7138 Segmentation fault touch $2
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: line 171: 8331 Segmentation fault cp -a /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/* "${DESTDIR}/scripts"
/usr/sbin/mkinitramfs: line 200: 8418 Segmentation fault cp -a /etc/modprobe.d/* "${DESTDIR}/etc/modprobe.d"
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/udev: line 33: 8631 Segmentation fault cp -p /etc/udev/udev.conf ${DESTDIR}/etc/udev

I'm running under this kernel:
root@Bandicoot:/# uname -a
Linux Bandicoot 2.6.17-6-server-xen0 #3 SMP Mon Oct 16 06:18:19 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
root@Bandicoot:/#

I think the same thing happened when I was trying to get the xen kernel going.

[dingo (dingo)]

I have an strace. There are segfaults in cp, touch and (I think) sudo.

fwiw I had a segfault in cp on OS X Tiger a while ago. My workaround was to use ditto. Whether it's related, couldn't say.

Attempting to attach the trace failed after some hours. You can pick it up from here:
http://casa.herakles.homelinux.org//edgy-trace.gz

The script's attached. The host is a freshly-installed K 6.10, and the mirror's the GA Kubuntu 6.10 CD.

[Mackenzie Morgan (maco.m)]

Edgy is no longer a supported release, so I'm closing this bug unless you can reproduce it on Hardy or Intrepid.