Segmentation fault when using ping6

Baruch Siach baruch at tkos.co.il
Thu Oct 7 01:32:03 EDT 2010


Hi Rogerio,

On Wed, Oct 06, 2010 at 05:27:29PM -0300, Rogerio Pimentel wrote:
> I'm having a "segmentation fault" problem when using ping6.
> 
> When testing on ARM9 platforms (i.MX25 and i.MX27), it returns the error:
> 
> root at freescale ~$ ping6 ::1
> PING ::1 (::1): 56 data bytes
> Segmentation fault
> 
> When testing on ARM11 and ARM Cortex A8 platforms (i.MX31 and
> i.MX51), it works:
> 
> root at freescale ~$ ping6 ::1
> PING ::1 (::1): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from ::1: seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.331 ms
> 64 bytes from ::1: seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.214 ms
> 64 bytes from ::1: seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.176 ms
> 64 bytes from ::1: seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.155 ms
> 
> On all cases, I'm using Linux Kernel 2.6.35 (from Mainline) and
> Busybox 1.15.0
> 
> Does anybody have any idea?

This seems to be a Busybox related issue. I'd suggests you to try the latest 
version of Busybox (1.17.2), and if the problem persists, ask at the Busybox 
mailing list. Don't forget to add strace output to your message.

baruch

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