Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 00:49:53 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: old BSD/OS binary coredumps Message-ID: <20010829074953.275FD3906@overcee.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20010829085053.A52695@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Joerg Wunsch wrote: > After upgrading to current-2001-08-28, my old BSD/OS Netscape 3 binary > no longer works. It coredumps right away at startup, before opening > any window. (Running it as "netscape3 -help", where it only produces > a usage message, isn't affected.) > > Now the interesting part: i wanted to get an idea why this happened, > and ran it through ktrace. Voila, that still works! Likewise when > running through truss. > > Does anybody have an idea what might have changed, and why's that odd > behaviour with the syscall tracers? That is certainly odd. Can you put a .tar.gz of whatever is needed to replicate it somewhere? eg: on http://freefall/~joerg/ ? What is the last -current kernel build date that it ran under? Have you removed COMPAT_43 by any chance? Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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