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Date:      Tue, 05 Oct 1999 11:11:20 +0200
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>
To:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: CVSup core dumps
Message-ID:  <37F9C0B8.B4E352D@scc.nl>
References:  <199910012137.PAA04480@shambhala.cgd.ucar.edu>, <199910050225.TAA39110@vashon.polstra.com>

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John Polstra wrote:
> 
> I've seen a few reports that CVSup has suddenly started dumping
> core on a segmentation violation under -current, but I need more
> information.

I received 3 reports on cvsup dumping core. At least 2 involved static
aout binaries. The third was solved by changing which shell was running
the script containing cvsup. (???)

> For starters, I would like to know whether the static
> binary (ports/net/cvsup-bin) works or not under the very latest
> -current on the i386.

It coredumps. See below.

> 
>     - which vintage of -current are you running?

FreeBSD scones.sup.scc.nl 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #17: Mon Oct 
4 10:33:12 CEST 1999    
marcel@scones.sup.scc.nl:/usr/src/sys/compile/SCONES  i386

>     - what is the output from "cvsup -v"?

***
*** runtime error:
***    Segmentation violation - possible attempt to dereference NIL
***    pc = 0x2f
***

Abort trap (core dumped)

> Note, you are going to have trouble getting much out of the core dumps
> from the binaries, because they're a.out.  I've placed an unstripped
> ELF binary here if you'd like to help out by getting a stack trace:

Great! I'll get to it.

-- 
Marcel Moolenaar                        mailto:marcel@scc.nl
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