From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 15 12:22:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58CD737BA5D for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 12:21:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (dcs@p47-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [211.0.245.112]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id FAA09603; Thu, 16 Mar 2000 05:21:49 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <38CFF089.C3224447@newsguy.com> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 05:20:25 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: current.freebsd.org snapshots and broken X11 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Watson wrote: > > Sounds good to me, as long as it runs :-). > > BTW, ran into another nit from the 02/13 snapshot. I installed the > X-kern-developer distribution, discovered X11 didn't work, so went back > into sysinstall to install X11 stuff. I selected some combination of X11 > components, and chose releng3.freebsd.org as the source -- sysinstall > coredumped. A second attempt at the same resulted in sysinstall hanging. > > This seems to be reproduceable -- what can I do to give you better > debugging information? cd /usr/src/release/sysinstall CC="gcc -g" make all ./sysinstall [list the exacts steps you took, so I can reproduce it too, or find that I can't :)] (core dump) gdb ./sysinstall sysinstall.core Usual procedure here (backtrace, etc). The problem will most likely be the member of a structure pointed by a NULL pointer being reference. Eg, mediaDevice->shutdown(...), i->kids. It would help further if you then break-pointed the function where the problem happened, and stepped through it to pinpoint when the variable turned to NULL (eg, mediaDevice->get(mediaDevice, ...)). -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone bind them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message