Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 13:41:26 -0800 (PST) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, dv@dv.ru Subject: Re: -stable problem Message-ID: <XFMail.990328134126.jdp@polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <199903282021.WAA11912@greenpeace.grondar.za>
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Mark Murray wrote:
> John Polstra wrote:
>> I can't think of any reasonable explanation for this. The assertion
>> is in the dynamic linker. But it already did its job long ago, before
>> the first message ("Trying x.x.x.x...") was printed. I can only guess
>> that telnet is making a random jump which happens to land in the
>> middle of the dynamic linker code. Maybe it's a kernel bug.
>
> ...or the error was printed by telnetd (on the other side).
That's probably it. But still, if it's an intermittant problem
then I'm inclined to say it's not a dynamic linker bug. (The file
containing the assert hasn't been changed since September, 1998.) A
core dump and/or ktrace of the failing process would help a lot.
John
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John Polstra jdp@polstra.com
John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA
"Self-interest is the aphrodisiac of belief." -- James V. DeLong
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