ls -l Segmentation fault

Kommissar · #1 15th March 2005, 09:51 PM

Everytime i do "ls -l" in terminal the only output i get is "Segmentation fault" What the heck does that mean and how do i fix it?

Thanks!

tashirosgt · #2 15th March 2005, 09:59 PM

You have an unusual problem. Every command runs as a little program and when a program produces a run time error, it is usually reported as a Segmentation fault. (Whether this terminology has a useful meaning, I don't know). On a normally configured machine, your command should not produce such an error. On FC3, "ls" is usually aliased to a longer command which gives a colorful display. Try:
unalias ls
ls -l
and see if that "segfaults" too.

Kommissar · #3 16th March 2005, 04:30 AM

Yes, unfortunately this command seg faults. I think it may have something to do with the latest Fedora Bash. Is there an older RPM i can download, or maybe i should just pull it off the cd. Do you know what it is called?

Kommissar · #4 16th March 2005, 06:25 AM

I found out that ls is actually part of the coreutils rpm and just extracted an old version of ls from the FC3 cd and replaced the new buggy version with the older but functional one.

crackers · #5 17th March 2005, 03:30 AM

It's not necessarily the version of ls that was at fault - I had this problem occur with several core applications (like grep). What I discovered is that I had interrupted the prelink process and it had aborted on re-writing the applications. In other words, the actual executable file was kinda "trashed" part way through.

Kommissar · #6 17th March 2005, 05:12 AM

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Originally Posted by crackers

It's not necessarily the version of ls that was at fault - I had this problem occur with several core applications (like grep). What I discovered is that I had interrupted the prelink process and it had aborted on re-writing the applications. In other words, the actual executable file was kinda "trashed" part way through.

I think that you are right. I vaguely remember stopping up2date so I think that some of my coreutils (ie, that file) got trashed unfortunately. Go me.

crackers · #7 18th March 2005, 04:19 AM

Welcome to the club...

Kommissar · #8 18th March 2005, 05:16 AM

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Originally Posted by crackers

Welcome to the club...

Yeah, now I'm quick with the "NO" when GPG signature fails. It's a reflex really.