Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:41:30 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Michael Moll <kvedulv@kvedulv.de>, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> Subject: Re: config(8) dumps core Message-ID: <201004292241.30915.bruce@cran.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <4BD9F7F1.7020607@icyb.net.ua> References: <20100429153154.GA70173@darkthrone.kvedulv.de> <20100429211256.GA73377@darkthrone.kvedulv.de> <4BD9F7F1.7020607@icyb.net.ua>
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On Thursday 29 April 2010 22:19:45 Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 30/04/2010 00:12 Michael Moll said the following: > > Hi, > > > > On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:33:30PM +0300, Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> on 29/04/2010 18:31 Michael Moll said the following: > >> You can use hd to see if you indeed have '\0' (0x00) symbol somewhere > >> within your kernel config file. > > > > Thanks, I checked this and there are no 0x00s in the config file itself, > > Then that assert message is strange. > Or there is something else to this situation. > > > but a hd to /boot/kernel/kernel reveals: > > > > 09 66 77 69 70 0a 64 65 76 69 63 65 09 64 63 6f |.fwip.device.dco| > > 6e 73 0a 64 65 76 69 63 65 09 64 63 6f 6e 73 5f |ns.device.dcons_| > > 63 72 6f 6d 0a 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |crom............| > > 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................| > > > > This also explains why a recent config-binary worked against the old > > kernel... The were some commits to /src/usr.sbin/config/* in the last > > weeks, maybe one of them broke this. > > Actually I think that this doesn't mean anything. > /boot/kernel/kernel is a binary, an executable, it is expected to have a > fair amount of 0x00 in it. > That assert was specifically about kernel _config_ file. It's expected to have some 0x00s, but hopefully not in the middle of the embedded kernel configuration file that has recently been added to GENERIC :) -- Bruce
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