From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 5 6:52: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pawn.primelocation.net (pawn.primelocation.net [205.161.238.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7408315635 for ; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 06:52:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jedgar@fxp.org) Received: from earth.fxp (oca-bn5k-39.mfi.net [209.26.31.55]) by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 785BB9B20; Tue, 5 Oct 1999 09:51:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 09:51:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" X-Sender: jedgar@earth.fxp To: John Polstra Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CVSup core dumps In-Reply-To: <199910050225.TAA39110@vashon.polstra.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, 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. 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. Could somebody please check that and report > back to the list? I can't sacrifice my i386 -current machine to the > cause right now. > It works here with world/kernel built this morning from sources cvsup'd at 0100 EDT from cvsup6.freebsd.org. > - what is the output from "cvsup -v"? earth:~# cvsup -v CVSup client, GUI version Software version: REL_16_0 Protocol version: 16.0 http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/ Report problems to cvsup-bugs@polstra.com earth:~# > - is "cvsup" a static binary or is it dynamically linked? earth:~# file /usr/local/bin/cvsup /usr/local/bin/cvsup: FreeBSD/i386 compact demand paged executable earth:~# ldd /usr/local/bin/cvsup ldd: /usr/local/bin/cvsup: not a dynamic executable (same on all versions) > - did you build it, or did you simply install a binary? no problems with the one retreived using /usr/ports/net/cvsup-bin: earth:/usr/ports/distfiles# md5 cvsup-freebsd-ix86-aout-16.0.tar.gz MD5 (cvsup-freebsd-ix86-aout-16.0.tar.gz) = 57c25981d3c1d82a79b9ae18aaea715b earth:/usr/ports/distfiles# nor from one pkg_add 'ed from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages/All/cvsup-bin-16.0.tgz : earth:~# md5 cvsup-bin-16.0.tgz MD5 (cvsup-bin-16.0.tgz) = 3e60e196c8ed9f7dac3f145bd72ac536 earth:~# > 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: > > http://www.freebsd.org/~jdp/cvsup-16.0.gz > This one works without fault also. ----- Chris D. Faulhaber | All the true gurus I've met never System/Network Administrator, | claimed they were one and always Reality Check Information, Inc. | pointed to someone better. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message