From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 28 13:43: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B17514E8E for ; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 13:42:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA21379; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 13:41:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) id NAA14114; Sun, 28 Mar 1999 13:41:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199903282021.WAA11912@greenpeace.grondar.za> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 13:41:26 -0800 (PST) Organization: Polstra & Co., Inc. From: John Polstra To: Mark Murray Subject: Re: -stable problem Cc: stable@freebsd.org, dv@dv.ru Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 --- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Self-interest is the aphrodisiac of belief." -- James V. DeLong To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message