Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 15:35:38 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au (Kris Kennaway) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libc corruption Message-ID: <199805152035.PAA03073@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.3.90.980515231223.18707A-100000@bragg> from Kris Kennaway at "May 15, 98 11:50:37 pm"
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Kris Kennaway said: > [morden|root] 23:39 ~/trash strings libc.a | grep SYS > SYS_nlstat > SYS_nfstat > SYS_nstat > SYS_netbsd_msync > SYS_lutimes > SYS_netbsd_lchown > SYS_lchmod > SYS_getdents > SYS_futimes > > (~/trash holds the corrupted version) > > I cant seem to find these symbols defined anywhere in the > /usr/src/lib/libc tree - any ideas where they came from? Anyone want to > take a look at the strange library? :-) I'm running softupdates on this > partition - it's possible there was some kind of corruption there. > Those are symbols created from the kernel list of system calls. > > Alternatively, if there's an easier way to do the above, could someone > point it out in case I'm in this situation again? > Always save off a working root/usr filesystem (I use a spare partition.) Recovery is still painful, but that is what I do. Also, when heavily developing, I don't use shared libs much, except for ports and X. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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