Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 18:01:16 -0800 From: "Maksim Yevmenkin" <myevmenk@digisle.net> To: "Julian Elischer" <julian@elischer.org>, <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: anyone seen this? Makes system unbooable. Message-ID: <C153D39717E5F444B81E7B85018A460B02D37E95@ex-sj-5.digisle.com>
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Julian, > I upgraded by cvs on saturday night, > Sunday I didn't use it. > Monday I tried to boot it. but the loader says: > ASSERT <mumble> > and the system reboots had _exactly_ the same poblem :( the string says, something like name not found ASSERT(FALSE) ficlCompileSoftCore in softcore.c line 291 i had to turn off CPU cache to catch the message and hit "pause" so i could read it :) > I'd LOVE to know wha the assert is but really My opical neurons take at > least 20mSecs to fire and by the time I've found the Asssert line > I'm already running on afterimage. in my case it was an "awk" problem. at some point perl script was replaced by awk script. i did not upgrade my awk, so i got bad softcore.c file. as far as i can tell several forth modiules get pre-processed by softcore.awk to produce softcore.c. if you have old "awk" then this will produce bad softcore.c (mosty because of escaping and removing comments=20 from forth code). the result is broken forth code inside softcore.c i had to use "holy trinity" (kern.flp, mfsfoot.flp and fixit.flp :), mount harddisk and re-build/re-install loader.=20 > In the meanwhile does anyone know what the problem might be.. > I'm recvsuping (I had to boot off a cdrom) and will recompile the > bootblocks, but some idea of the problem might be nice.. well, you've got my 2 cents, i had several _very_ unplesant hours before i recovered my laptop from the upgrade :) but now everything is fine :) thanks, max To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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