Grant Parnell - EverythingLinux wrote:
Not sure if anyone else has used SuSE 9.3 or SuSE 10 on a Via EPIA MII with 1.2GHZ CPU but we have a machine here that's segfaulting when running ssh-keygen for example but runs fine otherwise.
Not shocked. The VIA chips don't have all the instructions a Pentium II has, and vendors usually issue the SSH packages as i686 package because there are significant performance gains from using the multimedia instructions in the loops which do crypto. Use RPM to list all i686 packages and back them out, replacing them with i586. Hopefully there will be none. As you're getting SIGABORT, not SIGILL, so I don't think you're hitting an unsupported multimedia instruction. For SSH as a special case VIA has crypto helper instructions (code named Padlock). There are options when compiling SSH libraries to use this, however only in the most recent releases of the VIA chips is this useful (the previous versions did DES with Padlock, but SSH uses AES). What seems to be happening in your trace is that SSH is walking through libraries looking for the crypto hardware and GLIBC blows up, typically because it has been handed a 0-valued pointer. Next step: install the debugging version of SSH, run ssh-keygen from gdb and backtrace the stack. Look at the source and fix the foolish error you'll find (probably handing a zero-valued pointer to a directory listing function).
C) Would anyone like to try to fix it for a credit voucher at ELX?
Bit hard without the particular hardware (as the bug seems related to the search for the Padlock function). Why not configure it for serial console, attach it to a terminal server and re-issue your offer? <http://www.logix.cz/michal/devel/padlock/> <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=108860967904667> <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=113245827112591&w=2> -- Glen Turner Tel: (08) 8303 3936 or +61 8 8303 3936 Australia's Academic & Research Network www.aarnet.edu.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
