From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Sep 15 18:20:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EF6937B43E; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 18:20:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA45920; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 18:20:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200009160120.SAA45920@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Loader badly broken on the alpha To: alpha@FreeBSD.org, dcs@FreeBSD.org Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 18:20:53 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Well, after a rather long and frustrating afternoon, it seems that revision of the loader after Fri Sep 8 16:30 2000 UTC is broken for the alpha arch. I've tried to narrow things down to see if it was just the 4th changes or the pnp changes, but have been unable to get anything to boot except for a binary and 4th files from that date. I've even tried removing all of the 4th stuff and /boot/loader.rc and the newer loader binaries still break. Every time they break, they trigger a kernel stack not valid fault. My guess is that ficl is recursing in an infinite loop somewhere, that it is recursing too deeply and using up all available memory, or that something is failing to handle error conditions and is dereferencing a NULL pointer. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message