Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 15:11:30 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: wkt@cs.adfa.edu.au Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kldload: Exec format error, is 4.2 problem? Message-ID: <XFMail.010104151130.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200101040444.f044i6e04138@henry.cs.adfa.edu.au>
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On 04-Jan-01 Warren Toomey wrote: > No, I don't see any kernel messages in /var/log/messages. I downloaded > and used the vmware port for FreeBSD 4.2 after I'd moved to 4.2-STABLE. > > Has there been any changes to kernel modules, magic numbers etc. that > would cause this problem? Hmm.. well generally when you update your kernel source you need to update the kld's as well. This happens automatically when you build a kernel for the 'normal' kld's, but the ones which come in ports (vmware, skip) need to be updated by rebuilding the port. > I'll try reading through imgact_elf.c and compare magic numbers there > with the values in the .ko files. Good luck :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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