severe ld.so bug !!

Harald Koenig (koenig@tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
Tue, 17 Dec 1996 10:14:30 +0100 (MET)

ld.so (both 1.7.x and at least 1.8.3 using SuSE 4.4) has a SEVERE bug: if

/etc/ld.so.cache

is an empty file, every binary using shared libs will SEGV !

this happend for unknown reasons when e2fsck decided to truncate this
file and thus every reboot hung immedieately after the

VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.

message and things like booting "init=/bin/sh" didn't help either (obviously;)
and locating this "reboot problem" was no fun (was a long distance call for some hours;)

Harald

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