Re: time seg fault

[Greg Wooledge]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 09:59:48AM -0400, Justin Williams wrote:
> Unfortunately, if I try to strace it (strace time ls), I get command not
> found.

''strace time ls'' will try to run the external command ''time'' which
apparently you haven't got installed.  (Which is probably good in this
case, as it avoided some confusion....)

What you want is:

  strace bash -c 'time ls'

(You may need to give additional options to strace as well, to get the
behavior you want.)

> If I try to strace `time ls`, I get a hung screen.
> 
> Attaching gdb to the running bash session from which I am trying to run
> time, I don't get any useful pointers, but, what I get is below:
> 
> (no debugging symbols found)
> Attaching to program: /bin/bash, process 5647
> linux-nat.c:988: internal-error: linux_nat_attach: Assertion `pid == GET_PID
> (inferior_ptid) && WIFSTOPPED (status) && WSTOPSIG (status) == SIGSTOP'
> failed.
> A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
> further debugging may prove unreliable.

Maybe your libc is broken?  Or your compiler, if all of these are
self-compiled gentoo e-builds?