From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jun 23 16: 0:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from palrel1.hp.com (palrel1.hp.com [156.153.255.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BF4637C440 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 16:00:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@cup.hp.com) Received: from adlmail.cup.hp.com (adlmail.cup.hp.com [15.0.100.30]) by palrel1.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B5035F62; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 11:38:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cup.hp.com (gauss.cup.hp.com [15.28.97.152]) by adlmail.cup.hp.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18979)/8.9.3 SMKit7.02) with ESMTP id LAA12653; Fri, 23 Jun 2000 11:38:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3953AEA0.90264947@cup.hp.com> Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2000 11:38:24 -0700 From: Marcel Moolenaar Organization: Hewlett-Packard X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Pritchard Cc: Mike , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux emulation crashes (was: Re: Softupdates disappears?) References: <20000622042626.C02ADE6FF8@netcom1.netcom.com> <20000623034310.C16895@mppsystems.com> <20000623065847.A355@mppsystems.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Pritchard wrote: > One odd thing, due to some outdated files in /etc/defaults (I think), I wasn't > even building the linux module and installing it. The kldload was failing, > but attempting to run the bad ldconfig still caused the machine to crash. > FreeBSD syscall # 55 = reboot, Linux syscall # 55 = fcntl. I wonder > if something in exec needs fixing to not run linux binaries if the > emulator isn't present. The up-to-date linux ldconfig core dumps > when the linux emulator isn't present. The problem most likely is that the binary isn't recognized as being a Linux binary. It therefore uses the FreeBSD native syscalls. See also David's HEADS UP about changes in how we brand objects. -- Marcel Moolenaar mail: marcel@cup.hp.com / marcel@FreeBSD.org tel: (408) 447-4222 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message