[asterisk-users] Asterisk won't start - trap invalid opcode

[A J Stiles]

On Wednesday 04 January 2012, Duncan Turnbull wrote:
> I loaded the latest 1.6 which gets slightly further and a core dump shows
> this, but its past my ability to interpret
> 
> # gdb -se "asterisk" -c core | tee /tmp/backtrace.txt
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> Reading symbols from /usr/sbin/asterisk...done.
> [New LWP 19322]
> [New LWP 19323]
> [New LWP 19324]
> [New LWP 19325]
> [New LWP 19326]
> 
> warning: Can't read pathname for load map: Input/output error.
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> Core was generated by `asterisk -d -g -cvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv'.
> Program terminated with signal 4, Illegal instruction.
> #0  0x0000000000500eab in tzload (name=<optimized out>, sp=0x1fc7950,
> doextend=1) at stdtime/localtime.c:424 424	static int tzload(const char
> *name, struct state * const sp, const int doextend)

It's a bit beyond my depth too, but I'd start with a look at localtime.c in 
the Asterisk source tree.  It might simply be trying to include something that 
isn't present on your system.

If you stick a /* harmless comment */ in this file and re-save it, this will 
give the file a new modification time.  Then run `make` again.  It will 
recompile just localtime.c  (this being the only source file that has changed 
since the last time make was run)  -- now watch very closely for errors.


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