Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:46:29 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: Michael Moll <kvedulv@kvedulv.de>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> Subject: Re: config(8) dumps core Message-ID: <i2x7d6fde3d1004291446kd6cc10b3n8eed576f7bc22607@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201004292241.30915.bruce@cran.org.uk> References: <20100429153154.GA70173@darkthrone.kvedulv.de> <20100429211256.GA73377@darkthrone.kvedulv.de> <4BD9F7F1.7020607@icyb.net.ua> <201004292241.30915.bruce@cran.org.uk>
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On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> wrote:
> 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 itsel=
f,
>>
>> 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 =A076 69 63 65 09 64 63 6f |.fwip.device.dco|
>> > 6e 73 0a 64 65 76 69 63 =A065 09 64 63 6f 6e 73 5f |ns.device.dcons_|
>> > 63 72 6f 6d 0a 00 00 00 =A000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |crom............|
>> > 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 =A000 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 GENERI=
C :)
Michael,
Does a version prior to last week work, and could you please
attach your kernel configuration file(s) for analysis?
Thanks,
-Garrett
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