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Date:      Sun, 25 Jan 2009 20:43:50 -0500
From:      Stephen Sanders <ssanders@softhammer.net>
To:        d@delphij.net
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Heard of this?
Message-ID:  <1232934230.3316.2.camel@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <497A755F.7000605@delphij.net>
References:  <497A43DA.8040907@softhammer.net> <497A755F.7000605@delphij.net>

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Thanks for the reply.  The kernel is custom but the changes are in the
ethernet packet dis-assembly code.  These changes haven't been a problem
in the past but started to be a problem in 6.3.

Thanks for the tip on compat5x.  I'll look into that.


On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 17:56 -0800, Xin LI wrote:
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> Stephen Sanders wrote:
> > I'm tracking what I believe to be a bug in 32 bit compat5x.
> > 
> > The situation is as follows:
> > 
> > 6.3 amd64 FreeBSD running 32 bit FreeBSD 5.3 applications.  On fairly
> > random intervals, applications core drop in open(), fopen(), and kill()
> > in the 32 bit compat5x layer.  The core usually occur during process
> > startup.
> > 
> > A) Does this sound familiar.
> 
> Nope...  Do you have a custom built kernel or is it the stock kernel?
> Is it possible for you to try running a FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE kernel?
> 
> > B) Is there a specific place in the source tree to look for compat5x?
> 
> Basically compat5x is just library from FreeBSD 5.x, say, 5.4.
> 
> Cheers,
> - --
> Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net>	http://www.delphij.net/
> FreeBSD - The Power to Serve!
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