From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 29 0:49:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peter3.wemm.org (c1315225-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com [24.14.150.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 771C137B406 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 00:49:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from overcee.netplex.com.au (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by peter3.wemm.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f7T7nrM09301 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 00:49:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.netplex.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 275FD3906; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 00:49:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Joerg Wunsch Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: old BSD/OS binary coredumps In-Reply-To: <20010829085053.A52695@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 00:49:53 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20010829074953.275FD3906@overcee.netplex.com.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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