Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dynamic-link.h: 62: elf_get_dynamic_info: Assertion `! "bad dynamic tag"' failed!

[Kim Holburn]

At 10:49 AM +1100 2003/03/16, Duncan Roe wrote:
>Is your box connected to the internet?
>
>It sounds to me a little like your vi is now a trojan which hasn't quite been
>installed right. Or perhaps it *has* been installed right and the message is a
>furphy. Just maybe it's ld.so that's been attacked, but the error message looks
>genuine:-.
>
> 10:42:56~/doc$ strings -10 /lib/ld-linux.so.2|grep Inconsistency
> Inconsistency detected by ld.so: %s: %u: %s%sAssertion `%s' failed!
> Inconsistency detected by ld.so: %s: %u: %s%sUnexpected error: %s
>
>But perhaps the answer is more prosaic. When did vi last work?

The night before.

>Have you made any
>changes to the box's software since then? Did you delete anything?

No, this system doesn't have a hard disk.  It runs off a CD.  No changes possible to most of the file system.  It worked again after a reboot.

>You could try moving vi out of the way & rebuilding from source.
>
>Cheers ... Duncan.
>
>On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 03:51:41PM +1100, Kim Holburn wrote:
>> I can't use vi on this box since this morning.  Nothing in the logs.
>>
>> # vi fred.txt
>> Inconsistency detected by ld.so: dynamic-link.h: 62: elf_get_dynamic_info: Assertion `! "bad dynamic tag"' failed!
>> #
>>
>> Everything else seems to work OK.  Anyone have any clues.
>> --
>> --
>> Kim Holburn 
>> Network Consultant - Telecommunications Engineering
>> Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering
>> Australian National University - Ph: +61 2 61258620 M: +61 0417820641
>> Email: kim.holburn at anu.edu.au  - PGP Public Key on request
>>
>> Life is complex - It has real and imaginary parts.
> >      Andrea Leistra (rec.arts.sf.written.Robert-jordan)
> >


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Kim Holburn 
Network Consultant - Telecommunications Engineering
Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering
Australian National University - Ph: +61 2 61258620 M: +61 0417820641
Email: kim.holburn at anu.edu.au  - PGP Public Key on request

Life is complex - It has real and imaginary parts.
     Andrea Leistra (rec.arts.sf.written.Robert-jordan)