[SOLVED] Inconsistency detected by ld.so

[linux4me4you]

I dont think this error is specific to gentoo, but that's the os so here I am.

There are suddenly a lot of apps on my gentoo box that throw the error:
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: ../sysdeps/i386/dl-machine.h: 648: elf_machine_rel_relative: Assertion `((reloc->r_info) & 0xff) == 8' failed!

I havent checked the box in months and today needed to do some changes in samba and smbd and ntpd gave that error. I went to run emerge to see if my samba needed updating and it also threw the exact error. My apache2 does as well. I cant really list all of the apps that are throwing this error since there are so many. I'm afraid to reboot since I expect a kernel panic.

I ran ld.so to see if I could diagnose a little.

hydrogen lib #

./ld-linux.so.2 /usr/sbin/smbd
Inconsistency detected by ld.so: ../sysdeps/i386/dl-machine.h: 648: elf_machine_rel_relative: Assertion `((reloc->r_info) & 0xff) == 8' failed!
hydrogen lib # ./ld-linux.so.2 --list /usr/sbin/smbd
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xffffe000)
        libcups.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcups.so.2 (0xb7fe4000)
        libssl.so.0.9.7 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.0.9.7 (0xb7fbc000)
        libcrypto.so.0.9.7 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.7 (0xb7eec000)
        libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0xb7ed6000)
        libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0xb7eaa000)
        libpam.so.0 => /lib/libpam.so.0 (0xb7ea3000)
        libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0xb7e92000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb7e8f000)
        libpopt.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpopt.so.0 (0xb7e88000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb7d8d000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => ./ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)
hydrogen lib # ./ld-linux.so.2 --verify /usr/sbin/smbd
6

Again I'm not trying to build anything when the error happens. It happens when I try to execute the apps. My samba shares were working just fine but I needed to add a new one. I edited the config, did a /etc/init.d/samba restart and it failed with the above error.

I can only guess a emerge update was done months ago without a reboot so the services kept running even though the ones emerged failed badly. That's just a guess but I don't know how to recover this since even emerge is throwing the error and will not run.

Maybe something is wrong with /lib/ld-linux.so.2? I honestly have no clue.

So help?

[Segfault]

Haven't seen something like this before. Thoughts:

0. Hardware failure, resulting in corrupted files, glibc maybe
1. The box is hacked

I'd go for reboot, fsck from a liveCD, broken files (if found) can be replaced with ones from tinderbox.

[MikeTbob]

This guy claims he had bad RAM that caused this error....it may be helpful to run memtest overnight, if you can.
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[linux4me4you]

After taking the time to stand up a replacement linux box and swapping it out for the oddly behaving one, did a lot of troubleshooting without any success.

But I now felt confident to try a reboot since my entire network wasn't relying on this machine anymore. I had the latest gentoo cd ready incase a rebuild was going to be necessary. System powered down then back up and... it worked. That's all it took was a power cycle. I have to assume some bad weather a few weeks back or maybe a sun spot (/shrug) caused a temporary issue. The box is not only on battery backup but also a secondary surge protector. Oh well.

Linux boxes can have insane uptimes but I guess eventually they need to be bounced.

FSCK and memtest show no issues. Problem solved.

[MikeTbob]

Glad you sorted it out, I'll mark this as solved.