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Date:      Fri, 30 Apr 2010 00:49:38 +0200
From:      Michael Moll <kvedulv@kvedulv.de>
To:        Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, imp@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: config(8) dumps core
Message-ID:  <20100429224938.GI90938@darkthrone.kvedulv.de>
In-Reply-To: <201004292330.06455.bruce@cran.org.uk>
References:  <20100429153154.GA70173@darkthrone.kvedulv.de> <201004292241.30915.bruce@cran.org.uk> <i2x7d6fde3d1004291446kd6cc10b3n8eed576f7bc22607@mail.gmail.com> <201004292330.06455.bruce@cran.org.uk>

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Hi,

On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:30:06PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote:
> /boot/kernel/kernel".  It looks like it thinks there's more data available 
> than there is.
> 
> config/main.c gets the size of the configuration by running elfdump:
> 
> > elfdump -c /boot/kernel/kernel | grep -A 5 kern_conf | tail -2 | cut -d ' ' 
> -f 2 | paste - - -
> 
> 10053368        2656
> 
> The first column is the offset, and the second is the number of bytes, but the 
> embedded configuration only has 2649 bytes.

OK, that explains that with all the related commits backup out
(207265-206664) the resulting config-binary still fails. I don't have
time today to build the kernel with the different revisions to hunt the
problem down to one commit...

imp@: The last commits to usr.sbin/config/* might have raised this
problem, could you have a look at it?

Kind Regards
-- 
Michael Moll



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