I've been wresting with this problem since 8.0.1 and am able to
duplicate it on 6 different installations. If I compile postgres from
source, everything works fine. If I install the RHEL 4 ES RPM, pg_dump
silently fails. I've attached two straces, one from 8.0.3 RPM that
fails, and one from 8.0.1 that I compiled that doesn't fail (I didn't
recompile 8.0.3 from source, but I've experienced this with both 8.0.1
and 8.0.2, so I'm guessing it also works with 8.0.3).
In my previous conversations with Devrim, he pointed out that this looks
like the line that's causing it to fail:
fstat64(1, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0666, st_rdev=makedev(1, 3), ...}) = 0
ioctl(1, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, 0xbff0c6ec) = -1 ENOTTY
(Inappropriate ioctl for device)
I assumed that it was just my machine that had a problem, but since,
I've installed it on 5 other RHEL machines and every single one has had
the same problem.
Thanks,
Brandon
execve("/usr/bin/pg_dump", ["pg_dump", "--help"], [/* 21 vars */]) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="borg-4.unomaha.edu", ...}) = 0
brk(0) = 0x9ec8000
access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=18353, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 18353, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7ffb000
close(3)= 0
open("/usr/lib/libpq.so.4", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\340e\20"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=114020, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(0x101000, 109956, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3,
0) = 0x101000
old_mmap(0x11b000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1a000) = 0x11b000
close(3)= 0
open("/lib/libpam.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\260\343"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=29344, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0xb7ffa000
old_mmap(0xdbd000, 30812, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0)
= 0xdbd000
old_mmap(0xdc4000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x6000) = 0xdc4000
close(3)= 0
open("/lib/libssl.so.4", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\20\6\331"..., 512) =
512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=213600, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(0xd87000, 212692, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3,
0) = 0xd87000
old_mmap(0xdb8000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x31000) = 0xdb8000
close(3)= 0
open("/lib/libcrypto.so.4", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\0y\302"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=933408, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(0xbfd000, 949656, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3,
0) = 0xbfd000
old_mmap(0xcd, 73728, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0xd2000) = 0xcd
old_mmap(0xce2000, 11672, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xce2000
close(3)= 0
open("/usr/lib/libkrb5.so.3", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0`h\317\000"..., 512) =
512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=415188, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(0xce7000, 413000, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3,
0) = 0xce7000
old_mmap(0xd4a000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x63000) = 0xd4a000
close(3)= 0
open("/usr/lib/libz.so.1", O_RDONLY)= 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\260\365"..., 512) = 512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=63528, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(0xb7e000, 65028, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0)
= 0xb7e000
old_mmap(0xb8d000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0xe000) = 0xb8d000
close(3)= 0
open("/usr/lib/libreadline.so.4", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\20\36\335"..., 512) =
512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=170320, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(0xdc7000, 175764, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3,
0) = 0xdc7000
old_mmap(0xded000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x25000) = 0xded000
old_mmap(0xdf1000, 3732, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE,
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xdf1000
close(3)= 0
open("/lib/libtermcap.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\320K\337"..., 512) =
512
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=12592, ...}) = 0
old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0xb7ff9000
old_mma
