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Date:      Fri, 15 Sep 2000 18:51:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@pike.osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.ORG, dcs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Loader badly broken on the alpha
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009151850420.75738-100000@beppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <200009160120.SAA45920@pike.osd.bsdi.com>

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And you just noticed? Hello? What the hell do you think I've been saying...


On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, John Baldwin wrote:

> Well, after a rather long and frustrating afternoon, it seems that
> revision of the loader after Fri Sep 8 16:30 2000 UTC is broken for
> the alpha arch.  I've tried to narrow things down to see if it was just
> the 4th changes or the pnp changes, but have been unable to get anything
> to boot except for a binary and 4th files from that date.  I've even
> tried removing all of the 4th stuff and /boot/loader.rc and the newer
> loader binaries still break.  Every time they break, they trigger a
> kernel stack not valid fault.  My guess is that ficl is recursing in an
> infinite loop somewhere, that it is recursing too deeply and using up
> all available memory, or that something is failing to handle error conditions
> and is dereferencing a NULL pointer.
> 
> -- 
> 
> John Baldwin <jhb@bsdi.com> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/
> "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!"  -  http://www.FreeBSD.org/
> 
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