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echoping package

  1. Bug #1906092
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Marco Bicca (mbicca) wrote :

Running:
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS"
VERSION_ID="20.04"

Installed smokeping:
sudo apt install smokeping

Noticed core files under /var/crash:
-rw-r----- 1 smokeping smokeping 177182 Nov 27 23:14 _usr_bin_echoping.117.crash

And many segmentation fault errors in kern.log:
Nov 27 23:16:02 linux-mgmt kernel: [ 3063.653421] echoping[8532]: segfault at 407295e0 ip 00007f273b02e5e9 sp 00007ffeb61433c0 error 4 in dns.so.0.0.0[7f273b02e000+1000]
Nov 27 23:16:02 linux-mgmt kernel: [ 3063.653433] Code: 08 01 00 00 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 31 c0 e8 99 fb ff ff b9 02 00 00 00 48 8d 3d c6 0a 00 00 48 63 d8 48 89 de <f3> a6 0f 97 c0 1c 00 84 c0 74 7c b9 05 00 00 00 48 8d 3d a6 0a 00
Nov 27 23:16:02 linux-mgmt kernel: [ 3063.657597] echoping[8534]: segfault at ffffffffe526e5e0 ip 00007fc81b5875e9 sp 00007ffc106b1220 error 5 in dns.so.0.0.0[7fc81b587000+1000]
Nov 27 23:16:02 linux-mgmt kernel: [ 3063.657612] Code: 08 01 00 00 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 31 c0 e8 99 fb ff ff b9 02 00 00 00 48 8d 3d c6 0a 00 00 48 63 d8 48 89 de <f3> a6 0f 97 c0 1c 00 84 c0 74 7c b9 05 00 00 00 48 8d 3d a6 0a 00
Nov 27 23:16:02 linux-mgmt kernel: [ 3063.686165] echoping[8536]: segfault at 7eb745e0 ip 00007fabc03945e9 sp 00007ffcb6dedf20 error 4 in dns.so.0.0.0[7fabc0394000+1000]
Nov 27 23:16:02 linux-mgmt kernel: [ 3063.686180] Code: 08 01 00 00 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 31 c0 e8 99 fb ff ff b9 02 00 00 00 48 8d 3d c6 0a 00 00 48 63 d8 48 89 de <f3> a6 0f 97 c0 1c 00 84 c0 74 7c b9 05 00 00 00 48 8d 3d a6 0a 00
Nov 27 23:16:02 linux-mgmt kernel: [ 3063.688608] echoping[8538]: segfault at 56695e0 ip 00007f98013bf5e9 sp 00007ffdfa5c7430 error 4 in dns.so.0.0.0[7f98013bf000+1000]
Nov 27 23:16:02 linux-mgmt kernel: [ 3063.688635] Code: 08 01 00 00 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 31 c0 e8 99 fb ff ff b9 02 00 00 00 48 8d 3d c6 0a 00 00 48 63 d8 48 89 de <f3> a6 0f 97 c0 1c 00 84 c0 74 7c b9 05 00 00 00 48 8d 3d a6 0a 00

Did some research and it seems this issue is related with echoping using instructions that are not working under amd64 architecture. A previous workaround was to install the i386 version of the package which is not possible anymore.

Reference: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/513895/ddg#513913