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Date:      Tue, 15 Jan 2013 16:04:58 -0700
From:      Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org>
To:        dteske@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: kgzip(1) is broken
Message-ID:  <1358291098.32417.134.camel@revolution.hippie.lan>
In-Reply-To: <09b701cdf367$12737530$375a5f90$@freebsd.org>
References:  <09b701cdf367$12737530$375a5f90$@freebsd.org>

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On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 13:27 -0800, dteske@freebsd.org wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have been sad of-late because kgzip(1) no longer produces a usable kernel.
> 
> All versions of 9.x suffer this.
> 
> And somewhere between 8.3-RELEASE-p1 and 8.3-RELEASE-p5 this recently broke in
> the 8.x series.
> 
> I haven't tried the 7 series lately, but if whatever is making the rounds gets
> MFC'd that far back, I expect the problem to percolate there too.
> 
> The symptom is that the machine reboots immediately and unexpectedly the moment
> the kernel is executed by the loader.
> 
> This is quite troubling and I am looking for someone to help find the culprit. I
> don't know where to start looking.

Here are some possible candidates from the things that were MFC'd to 8
in that timeframe.  I haven't looked at what these do, they're just
changes that affect files related to booting.

r233211
r233377
r233469
r234563

-- Ian





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