Re: Parted is telling me something. What does it mean?

[Timshel Knoll]

On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 08:42:22AM +1000, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> "Robert E. Harvey, M.D." wrote:
> > I got parted to actually start up, but I'm getting some messages that
> > concern me and solicit any help available.  I'm running Red Hat Linux
> > 7.1 on a SCSI system.  On giving the command:
> > 
> > # LD_LIBRARY_PATH=. ./parted
> > 
> > I get the message:  bus error (core dumped)
> 
> Ouch!   Probably some library incompatibility issue (?)
> (Anyone know?  I'm rather ignorant about this stuff!)

AFAIK, bus errors normally are to do with memory alignment ...
eg. accessing a 32 bit long at a non-32-bit-aligned address.

Fire it up in GDB and see where it fails .... that might give you a
pointer to where the problem is ...

Timshel

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