From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Sep 15 18:51:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63F8137B423; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 18:51:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beppo.feral.com (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA30991; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 18:51:30 -0700 Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 18:51:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: John Baldwin Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, dcs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Loader badly broken on the alpha In-Reply-To: <200009160120.SAA45920@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org And you just noticed? Hello? What the hell do you think I've been saying... On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > Well, after a rather long and frustrating afternoon, it seems that > revision of the loader after Fri Sep 8 16:30 2000 UTC is broken for > the alpha arch. I've tried to narrow things down to see if it was just > the 4th changes or the pnp changes, but have been unable to get anything > to boot except for a binary and 4th files from that date. I've even > tried removing all of the 4th stuff and /boot/loader.rc and the newer > loader binaries still break. Every time they break, they trigger a > kernel stack not valid fault. My guess is that ficl is recursing in an > infinite loop somewhere, that it is recursing too deeply and using up > all available memory, or that something is failing to handle error conditions > and is dereferencing a NULL pointer. > > -- > > John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message