Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:57:13 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: interesting new one Message-ID: <200009141957.MAA00889@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:46:40 BST." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009141745260.86297-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
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> On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > > > > checking for core dump...savecore: no core dump > > Doing additional network setup: ntpdate ntpd portmap ypbind. > > Starting final network daemons: mountdpanic: kmem_malloc(301973504): kmem_map > > too small: 6266880 total allocated > > > > syncing disks... > > I had this, something changed and mountd is passing the wrong shaped > structure to mount(). The arguments are not checked very well by the > kernel and it dies horribly. You can get to multiuser by simply deleting > mountd and then rebuild from fresh sources. I think it was the ucred structure growing an extra pointer. This worried me because I thought it might affect other kernel interfaces as well; I think the 'right' solution here would have been to split the kernel and userland versions of the struct... -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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