Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 11:24:50 -0800 From: adamw@holonet.net (Adam Wight) To: Nick Hibma <hibma@skylink.it>, "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make buildworld failed... Message-ID: <v02110100b3eddeeb6d8b@DialupEudora>
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On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Nick Hibma wrote: >Let me guess, the kernel panic ends up in a division by zero error when >writing to floppy in _qdivrem. Yep, this would be it. On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: >That sounds like it could have just been fixed by phk. If it's not that and >is the writing past the end of a block device issue, use the character >device instead. I'm afraid it's the latter problem. It crashes at line 414 of dd/conv.c, but I really don't see why. The arguments all look decent--it's only trying to write 512 bytes at a time, and everything looks just like it does during a character device write. I don't understand this area of the system well enough to do much useful debugging, but if anyone wants the particulars, this is 120% repeatable. -Adam Wight To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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