From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 31 18: 1:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ex-sj-5.digisle.com (ex-sj-5.digisle.com [167.216.153.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C2EB37B41F for ; Mon, 31 Dec 2001 18:01:16 -0800 (PST) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.0.4712.0 content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: RE: anyone seen this? Makes system unbooable. Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 18:01:16 -0800 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: anyone seen this? Makes system unbooable. Thread-Index: AcGSMwsGY/BegAsNTGei+np44KyolwAMymE1 From: "Maksim Yevmenkin" To: "Julian Elischer" , Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > 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