From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 5 2:38:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.scc.nl (node1374.a2000.nl [62.108.19.116]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 130F014DF2 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 02:38:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd-current@scc.nl) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by mail.scc.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA28158 for current@FreeBSD.org; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 11:11:30 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd-current@scc.nl) Received: from GATEWAY by dwarf.hq.scc.nl with netnews for current@FreeBSD.org (current@FreeBSD.org) To: current@FreeBSD.org Date: Tue, 05 Oct 1999 11:11:20 +0200 From: Marcel Moolenaar Message-ID: <37F9C0B8.B4E352D@scc.nl> Organization: SCC vof Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <199910012137.PAA04480@shambhala.cgd.ucar.edu>, <199910050225.TAA39110@vashon.polstra.com> Subject: Re: CVSup core dumps Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Polstra wrote: > > I've seen a few reports that CVSup has suddenly started dumping > core on a segmentation violation under -current, but I need more > information. I received 3 reports on cvsup dumping core. At least 2 involved static aout binaries. The third was solved by changing which shell was running the script containing cvsup. (???) > For starters, I would like to know whether the static > binary (ports/net/cvsup-bin) works or not under the very latest > -current on the i386. It coredumps. See below. > > - which vintage of -current are you running? FreeBSD scones.sup.scc.nl 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #17: Mon Oct 4 10:33:12 CEST 1999 marcel@scones.sup.scc.nl:/usr/src/sys/compile/SCONES i386 > - what is the output from "cvsup -v"? *** *** runtime error: *** Segmentation violation - possible attempt to dereference NIL *** pc = 0x2f *** Abort trap (core dumped) > Note, you are going to have trouble getting much out of the core dumps > from the binaries, because they're a.out. I've placed an unstripped > ELF binary here if you'd like to help out by getting a stack trace: Great! I'll get to it. -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message