Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:05:22 +0200 From: Joerg Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: old BSD/OS binary coredumps Message-ID: <20010830150522.A59172@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <20010829102229.A7573@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>; from un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:22:29AM %2B0200 References: <20010829085053.A52695@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20010829074953.275FD3906@overcee.netplex.com.au> <20010829085053.A52695@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20010829102229.A7573@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
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As Philipp Mergenthaler wrote: > I saw something like this some time ago, too. In my case it was > because in kern_sysctl:ogetkerninfo(), in "case KINFO_BSDI_SYSINFO:", > the variable "size" is not always given a value. Maybe the patch in > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=25476 > fixes it for you, too? I'll have a look at that. As Peter Wemm wrote: > That is certainly odd. Can you put a .tar.gz of whatever is needed to > replicate it somewhere? eg: on http://freefall/~joerg/ ? http://people.freebsd.org/~joerg/netscape.bz That's just the binary itself, i verified in a chroot environment that's all you need to reproduce it (here at least). Ignore all the warnings about missing keysyms etc., the don't influence the coredump behaviour. > What is the last -current kernel build date that it ran under? My old kernel was from 2001-06-07. > Have you removed COMPAT_43 by any chance? No. (I think the kernel cannot even be linked when omitting this, i once tried it.) The only change to the config file was to remove the userconfig stuff now. -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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