The best way I've found to catch these segfaults is to run a venus
with debugging symbols. I'm not sure whether the binaries in the rpm
package are stripped, but I noticed the other day that the binaries in
the debian packages are and thus won't have these debug symbols.

I compiled venus myself, and checked that it was not stripped using "file".  I got the following session which looks to me to be less then usefull.

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Also a description of how you crash venus might help me debug the
problem here.

Were saving a file.  Now saving works fine, but using the "save as" featue in word across samba dumping to cooda seems to break 5.3.17 reliably. 


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Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 17:08:38 -0600

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This GDB was configured as "i686-pc-linux-gnu"...
(no debugging symbols found)...
Attaching to program: /usr/sbin/venus, Pid 8736
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/librdslwp.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...
done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libseg.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...
done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/librvmlwp.so.1...(no debugging symbols found)...
done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/librpc2.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...
done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libse.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libfail.so.3...(no debugging symbols found)...
done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/liblwp.so.2...(no debugging symbols found)...
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(no debugging symbols found)...done.
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0x401d4e1e in select () from /lib/libc.so.6
(gdb) continue
Continuing.

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x808ce7e in strcpy ()
(gdb) bt
#0  0x808ce7e in strcpy ()
#1  0x1527dc80 in ?? ()
#2  0x805a1d8 in strcpy ()
#3  0x8058a35 in strcpy ()
#4  0x8054d8c in strcpy ()
#5  0x80557a0 in strcpy ()
#6  0x8052ff2 in strcpy ()
#7  0x80a9ec4 in strcpy ()
#8  0x80adb82 in strcpy ()
#9  0x80a47a2 in strcpy ()
#10 0x40093fbf in LWP_StackUsed () from /usr/lib/liblwp.so.2
(gdb) 

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Corey