Stephen Bloom wrote:
> I have largely lurked here for a number of years, but
> I now have a truly vexing problem. I have a Dell D820 laptop
> that I have been running (with pretty good success) with
> Slack-current right up to the last change (12.1 RC-4). I rebuilt
> the kernel with the tuxonice-3.0 patches and things appeared to
> be working well -- until I tried a test hibernation. Boom.
>
> After the smoke cleared, I now have a situation where ldconfig
> always segfaults. I have the 12.1 iso's, and did a complete
> reinstall, using the default slack kernels, and I *still* get
> ldconfig with segfaults. Memtest doesn't appear to indicate
> any memory issues. Tuxonice was set up to use swap - so far I
> haven't found any identifiable issues with swap (using fdisk).
>
> So - anyone out there run into anything remotely like this? I'm
> currently out of ideas of how to diagnose further this debacle.
> The only other step I see right now is to reformat all the linux
> partitions and restart from the ground up.
>

You could try compiling ldconfig yourself, passing -g to the compiler
(to include all the debugging symbols), and then run it in the debugger
to find out exactly where it's crashing...