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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