Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Rdiff-backup Starting to segfault out of nowhere

[David Kempe]

Robert Yoon wrote:
> I just recently ran into some problems with one of the hosts i am using 
> rdiff-backup on. its on redhat 8 and it was just working fine until 
> recently
>
> #rdiff-backup  -V
> Segmentation fault

thats not rdiff-backup's fault i don't think

> --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) ---
> +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++

did you update the kernel recently? I have seen a similiar crash with a 
kernel that didn't include NPTL support on a system that used nptl.
solution is funnily enough to mv /lib/tls /lib/tls.old
but it could be a hardware problem or anything else in between

dave