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Date:      Thu, 09 May 2002 21:53:23 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/usb usb_port.h
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20020509215323.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020509201833.GA403@genius.tao.org.uk>

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On 09-May-2002 Josef Karthauser wrote:
> On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 01:04:22PM -0400, John Baldwin wrote:
>> 
>> >> If you have kernel.debug lying around for this one, try using
>> >> addr2line (or gdb) to get the file and line of those addresses
>> >> in the backtrace.  Probably just the first one is needed as this
>> >> is a simple NULL pointer dereference.
>> > 
>> > Ok.  Here's a trace from a remote debug:
>> > 
>> >     Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>> >     sysctl_find_oidname (name=0xc02e50ce "ata_dma", list=0x0)
>> >       at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_sysctl.c:79
>> >     79              SLIST_FOREACH(oidp, list, oid_link) {
>> >     (gdb) bt
>> >     #0  sysctl_find_oidname (name=0xc02e50ce "ata_dma", list=0x0)
>> >       at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_sysctl.c:79
>> >     #1  0xc01ef62c in sysctl_register_oid (oidp=0xc0333380)
>> >       at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_sysctl.c:104
>> >     #2  0xc01efb70 in sysctl_register_all (arg=0x0)
>> >       at /usr/src/sys/kern/kern_sysctl.c:402
>> >     #3  0xc01cf7c5 in mi_startup () at /usr/src/sys/kern/init_main.c:208
>> >     (gdb)
>> > 
>> > Joe
>> 
>> I don't see how this can happen.  Can you try doing a make clean to delete
>> all the .o's and rebuild the kernel from scratch?  Also, can you run 'nm'
>> on the resulting kernel to make sure there aren't any unresolved symbols?
>> (unresolved symbols have a type of 'U').
> 
> Yes, you're right.  I've done a nice clean kernel build and this problem
> has gone away; coupled with the env fix I've now got a system that
> boots.
> 
> Sweet!

Great, thanks for testing.

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