Adding some useful information, enabling strace gives me the following messages. It looks like the segmentation fault is ultimately caused by missing ld.so.nohwcap and ld.so.preload?
$ ./qemu-mips -L /usr/mips-linux-gnu -strace test 10255 brk(NULL) = 0x00412000 10255 mmap2(NULL,8192,PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS,-1,0) = 0x7f7c8000 10255 uname(0x7fffe8c8) = 0 10255 access("/etc/ld.so.nohwcap",F_OK) = -1 errno=2 (No such file or directory) 10255 access("/etc/ld.so.preload",R_OK) = -1 errno=2 (No such file or directory) 10255 openat(AT_FDCWD,"/etc/ld.so.cache",O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3 10255 fstat64(3,0x7fffe518) = 0 10255 mmap2(NULL,106802,PROT_READ,MAP_PRIVATE,3,0) = 0x7f7ad000 10255 close(3) = 0 --- SIGSEGV {si_signo=SIGSEGV, si_code=1, si_addr=0x2392d008} --- qemu: uncaught target signal 11 (Segmentation fault) - core dumped [1] 10255 segmentation fault (core dumped) ./qemu-mips -strace test ------------------ Original ------------------ From: "Libo Zhou";<zhl...@foxmail.com>; Send time: Monday, Sep 2, 2019 12:16 PM To: "qemu-devel"<qemu-devel@nongnu.org>; Subject: Uncaught target signal 11 (Segmentation Faullt) I am trying to run a simple MIPS program with QEMU user mode. Host: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS on x86_64 QEMU config: ../configure --target-list=mips-linux-user Cross Compiler: sudo apt install gcc-mips-linux-gnu My test.c is simple: int main(void) {int a = 1; int b =2; int c; c = a + b; return 0;} After compiling it with "mips-linux-gnu-gcc test.c -o test", I ran it with "./qemu-mips -L /usr/mips-linux-gnu test", then I got the following error message: qemu: uncaught target signal 11 (Segmentation fault) - core dumped Does anyone have a solution to this? Thank you in advance. Cheers, Libo