Re: Random crashes when setting locale data

[Yuri D'Elia]

On Sun, 13 Nov 2011 20:32:07 -0500
Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:

> > This script fails roughly 3% of the time for me, only when running on a 
> > loaded system, and then again only when run through "solar". I've tried to 
> > run bash manually reproducing the *exact* environment by dumping "env" but 
> > no luck.
> 
> It appears to me that this is a problem with the environment solar provides
> to the shell script, and the included version of libintl chokes on
> something about it (the value of $LC_IDENTIFICATION?).  You've tried
> several different versions of bash, and they all seem to fail inside
> libintl.

Apparently, yes. Though I also have weird "xalloc" failures before that 
(although more rare).

> Without knowing more about the data in the stack traceback, like the
> values passed to strlen, it's hard to say more.  It might be an
> interaction between libc and the version of libintl included with bash;
> it might be that libc isn't calling out to the bash libintl at all.

I don't know what exactly is going on, but I've build everything with -O0 -ggdb 
and yet cannot get a decent stack trace (maybe there are some hardcoded flags 
on the makefiles or whatnot). I didn't spent too much time on it however.

Since I'd like to investigate more on this issue, what your suggestion would be 
to dig deeper into the issue?