Tuesday, December 4, 2012

libstdc++ dies running driveclient

Received this error trying to start up driveclient for a rackspace cloud backup.
Dec  4 15:57:07 system kernel: driveclient[12763] general protection ip:7fa8bd8b5590 sp:7fff41ec2450 error:0 in libstdc++.so.6.0.13[7fa8bd849000+e8000]
Installed were: libstdc++.x86_64 4.4.6-4.el6 @anaconda-CentOS-201207061011.x86_64/6.3 driveclient.x86_64 1.04.005581-0 @drivesrvr
stat("/etc/issue", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1882, ...}) = 0
stat("/etc/issue", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=1882, ...}) = 0
open("/etc/issue", O_RDONLY)            = 3
read(3, " _  ____                     ___"..., 8191) = 1882
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
I am not sure if my /etc/issue was too large or there bad characters or something else wrong with this file, but removing it fixes the problem.