Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2002 17:49:36 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@fromme.com> To: kaltorak@quake.com.au (Kal Torak) Cc: ken@kdm.org (Kenneth D. Merry), freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Stable) Subject: Re: tosha port causing system to reboot Message-ID: <200208251549.g7PFnbo54349@haluter.fromme.com> In-Reply-To: <no.id> from "Kal Torak" at Aug 24, 2002 08:28:22 PM
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Kal Torak wrote: > Anyway the problem seems fairly stright forward, I have found that its > triggerd by reading an audio cd that also contains a data track.. I've read a lot of such CD-ROMs without problems. I'm using a slightly newer version of tosha, however, maybe that makes a difference. I should finally take the time to update the port ... :-/ > The simple work-around is to just list the tracks you want to extract and > make sure none of them are data tracks, but in the default mode it tries > to read the data track as audio and causes the system to panic.. > > This just seems like a bug that the program doesnt check the type of track > before reading it... I will send all the dump and things if its needed, but > it doesnt seem to be system/hardware related... It's certainly system-related. A userland program should _never_ be able to cause a system panic, no matter if that program has bugs or not. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, Konrad-Celtis-Str. 72, 81369 Munich, Germany ``All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream.'' (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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