topic Re: tcsh on 11.22 dumps core in Operating System - HP-UX

tcsh on 11.22 dumps core

David Mackintosh — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 13:46:58 GMT

Greetings

Pardon my inexperience, it has been a _long_ time since I've been in HP/UX water, and this is my first foray using Itanium gear.

The problem is this: I have installed 11.22, plus the June patch cluster, onto an RX2600. I have then installed the tcsh 6.12.00 from the uk software repository (I don't have the URL handy, but I can dig it up if it is relevant). Whenever tcsh does... well, anything (like _ls_) it displays the output of the command and then dumps core. This makes it pretty difficult for my user community to use the box, since the .cshrc we use triggers this core dump.

I believe this means I have forgotten to do something pretty fundamental, but can't for the life of me figure it out.

Any hints would be extremely welcome. If I can provide more information, please let me know and I'll dig it up.

Thank you for your time.

Re: tcsh on 11.22 dumps core

H.Merijn Brand (procura — Mon, 02 Feb 2004 17:35:36 GMT

After you are sure that this binary port indeed is for your architecture, which I beleive it is, since it does start, try the following ...

first try to move any user specific code out of the way: ~/.login, ~/.thshrc, ~/.cshrc

Now you should get a `clean' environment. Look if the basics work. ls has some extension mechanisms in the tcsh to enable fast listings, so that is not a good example to start testing with

Do a 'set' command and be sure that everything suspicious is turned off: unset 'listflags'
(listflags is what influences ls behaviour)

now set back bit by bit the user settings until tcsh barfs

Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

Re: tcsh on 11.22 dumps core

Ted Buis — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 11:42:21 GMT

I don't know if you have considered 11.23, but that is the latest release and addresses some issue in 11.22.

Re: tcsh on 11.22 dumps core

David Mackintosh — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 11:45:54 GMT

Hi all

I've downloaded the source code for tcsh (form the same place I got the binary from) and built it using the bundled compiler, and the resulting shell so far works well.

I don't know if this means that there is an issue with the downloaded archive.

Thanks for all your help

Re: tcsh on 11.22 dumps core

Robert-Jan Goossens — Tue, 03 Feb 2004 12:05:45 GMT

are we all talking about the same source? (:-)

http://hpux.connect.org.uk/hppd/hpux/Shells/tcsh-6.12.00/

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Shells/tcsh-6.12.00/

Regards,
Robert-Jan