Since this week new linux-2.6/master kernels don't work with my initial ram disks. The sleep binary runs repeatingly into segmentation faults until the Busybox shell starts. My system is a x86-64 with Kubuntu Feisty Fawn.
By bisecting I found out that the PIE randomization patch (commit 60bfba7e) appears to cause the segmentation faults. Digging further into the issue I found out, that the sleep binary on the initial ramdisk is a klibc binary. /usr/bin/file says it is statically linked and uses shared libraries. I have no clue about klibc, but the binaries seem to be statically linked, but load a shared library; probably at a fixed address. Other klibc binaries are also running into segmentation faults. Busybox is working, but it is statically linked and doesn't use a shared library. It looks like that the PIE randomization patch breaks klibc binaries on x86-64. -- Uli Kunitz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
