From: Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>
Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 20:24:22 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Add message about disabling PIE if sudo gets SIGSEGV.
X-Git-Tag: SUDO_1_8_7~1^2~13
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2dd71e838a9ae03c331228786bc44a4e1a4245ef;p=sudo

Add message about disabling PIE if sudo gets SIGSEGV.
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diff --git a/doc/TROUBLESHOOTING b/doc/TROUBLESHOOTING
index 54c0da493..ee253d844 100644
--- a/doc/TROUBLESHOOTING
+++ b/doc/TROUBLESHOOTING
@@ -274,6 +274,15 @@ A) AIX's Enhanced RBAC is preventing sudo from running.  To fix
 	    innateprivs = PV_DAC_GID,PV_DAC_O,PV_DAC_R,PV_DAC_UID,PV_DAC_W,PV_DAC_X,PV_FS_CHOWN,PV_PROC_ENV,PV_PROC_PRIO,PV_PROC_RAC
 	    secflags = FSF_EPS
 
+Q) Sudo configures and builds without error but when I run it I get
+   a Segmentation fault.
+A) The first thing to try is to run configure with the --disable-pie
+   option, then "make clean" and "make".  If that fixes the problem
+   then your operating system does not support position independent
+   executables, even though the compiler appears to support them.
+   If the problem persists, please send a message to sudo-users@sudo.ws
+   for assistance.
+
 Q) When I run configure I get the following error:
     dlopen present but libtool doesn't appear to support your platform.
 A) Libtool doesn't know how to support dynamic linking on the operating