Date: Mon, 8 Nov 1999 19:20:01 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/14785: PPP userland/client throws core Message-ID: <199911090320.TAA01627@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/14785; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org>
To: kjwolf@seismic.de
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org
Subject: Re: bin/14785: PPP userland/client throws core
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 00:56:31 +0000
[.....]
> Very difficult: PPP crashes and throws core after a short time of usage
> - as of the (unchanged) selfmade distribution CD-ROM, or even after
> being recompiled from /usr/src again. After being re-compiled with
> CFLAGS="-g -pipe" for debugging purposes, there are no such problems,
> i.e. it is no post-mortem debugging possible (>six weeks of trial).
> Multiply tried since 3.3-RELEASE, problem remains the same. PR 14145 &
> fix possibly reduced the frequency.
>
> Known since 3.3-RELEASE (not the pre-3.3 testing versions before).
> Maybe a compiler/code incompatibility problem?
[.....]
Can you try the version from my website ? There were a few nasty
bugs fixed recently (just before FreeBSDCon) that I haven't yet
brought back into RELENG_3 (it's about time I did).
> Unknown. Try using the optimized executable of ppp and you might see.
I haven't run an optimised ppp in about 3 years :o)
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