dhcpcd-discuss

Ed W wrote:
> Additional:  It appears that you need both UCLIBC_USE_NETLINK=y and 
> UCLIBC_SUPPORT_AI_ADDRCONFIG=y in your uclibc config
>
> ...Unfortunately when I enable the second option then I'm getting 
> segfaults whenever I try and do anything network related which actually 
> uses the device, eg ifconfig is fine, bringing up the interface is fine, 
> but "ping" segfaults, as does "telnet".
>
> dhcpcd I think is working fine (oddly enough), and I can't reproduce 
> this on my build environment (which is fairly similar bar the kernel)
>
> Clearly this is unrelated to dhcpcd now, and may well be a kernel option 
> related issue, but perhaps someone has some ideas where to look?  
> Obviously it's going to be a pain to turn on symbols and try to get a 
> backtrace on the embedded board
>
> For ref this is a gentoo+hardened kernel, with a hardened gcc3.4 
> toolchain, uclibc 0.30.1 + bb 0.14.2
>
> Anyone got any ideas on what to check or perhaps experienced something 
> similar...

I'm not familiar with uclibc, but I do know I'll need a full backtrace 
to provide any help :/

I'm also subscribed to the gentoo-embedded list and saw the cross post 
there. Once a solution is found, I'd appreciate a post back here for the 
archives :)

Thanks

Roy