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Date:      Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:24:39 +0200
From:      Gary Jennejohn <gary.jennejohn@freenet.de>
To:        David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net>
Cc:        Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com>, Shields <wxs@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Wesley
Subject:   Re: cvsup after upgrade to 6.3 coredump
Message-ID:  <20080711162439.06036517@peedub.jennejohn.org>
In-Reply-To: <200807110623.55343.david@vizion2000.net>
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On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:23:54 -0700
David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net> wrote:

> On Friday 11 July 2008 01:57:37 Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> > On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 14:14:42 -0700
> >
> > "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:47 AM, David Southwell <david@vizion2000.net> 
> wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 10 July 2008 11:43:20 David Southwell wrote:
> > > >> On Thursday 10 July 2008 11:09:23 Wesley Shields wrote:
> > > >> > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 11:20:40AM -0700, David Southwell wrote:
> > > >> > > Can anyone help me out here..
> > > >> > >
> > > >> > > Obviously I have missed something in the upgrade to 6.3 from 6.1
> > > >> > >
> > > >> > > I seem to have a working system but cvsup is falling down.
> > > >> > > Mail is working fine, so is kde.
> > > >> > >
> > > >> > > After upgrade from 6.1 to 6.3 I got a core dump from cvsup
> > > >> > > UNAME:
> > > >> > > [root@dns1 /usr/ports/net/cvsup]# uname -a
> > > >> > > FreeBSD dns1.vizion2000.net 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #1: Thu
> > > >> > > Jul 10 09:41:47 PDT 2008     root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC 
> > > >> > > amd64 [root@dns1 /usr/ports/net/cvsup]#
> > > >> > >
> > > >> > > RECOMPILED cvsup after core dump:
> > > >> > > [root@dns1 /usr/ports/net/cvsup]# make clean
> > > >> > > ===>  Cleaning for cvsup-without-gui-16.1h_4
> > > >> > > [root@dns1 /usr/ports/net/cvsup]# make
> > > >> > > [root@dns1 /usr/ports/net/cvsup]# make deinstall
> > > >> > > ===>  Deinstalling for net/cvsup
> > > >> > > ===>   Deinstalling cvsup-without-gui-16.1h_4
> > > >> > > [root@dns1 /usr/ports/net/cvsup]# make reinstall
> > > >> > > [root@dns1 /usr/ports/net/cvsup]# make deinstall
> > > >> > > ===>  Deinstalling for net/cvsup
> > > >> > > ===>   Deinstalling cvsup-without-gui-16.1h_4
> > > >> > > [root@dns1 /usr/ports/net/cvsup]# make reinstall
> > > >> > >
> > > >> > > BUT STILL GOT:
> > > >> > >
> > > >> > > cvsup /var/cvsupconfig/ports-supfile
> > > >> > > Connected to cvsup10.FreeBSD.org
> > > >> > > Bus error: 10 (core dumped)
> > > >> > > [root@dns1 /usr/ports/net/cvsup]#
> > > >> > >
> > > >> > > Can anyone point me in the right direction please
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Not sure if you're cutting out the relevant parts but did you
> > > >> > actually rebuild cvsup (ie: was it cleaned)?  I'm not even sure if
> > > >> > that's going to matter or not.
> > > >> >
> > > >> > Your other option is to just use csup (it's in 6.3).
> > > >>
> > > >> Yes I cleaned (twice) and ran make config before make.
> > > >>
> > > >> This is weird why a core dump & why a Bus error??
> > > >>
> > > >> Strange
> > > >>
> > > >> David
> > > >
> > > > Humph weirder stil csup is working - no problem
> > > >
> > > > However there must be a problem somewhere for cvsup to fail.. If I
> > > > ignore it it sure will not go away <smiles & groans> <chuckles>
> > > >
> > > > David
> > >
> > > (Forgive me if the last make targets aren't correct because I don't
> > > have a machine to test with, but the rest of the steps should be
> > > proper).
> > >
> > > Try the following...
> > >
> > > rm -R /var/obj; cd /usr/src && make cleandir clean && cd
> > > usr.sbin/cvsup && make depend all
> > >
> > > ... to clean out your object directories, start fresh, and compile
> > > cvsup from scratch.
> >
> > cvsup is not part of the base system.
> >
> > ---
> > Gary Jennejohn
> Agreed. To keep this thread together I thought I would bring the substance of 
> my last report into this reply.
> 
> I have just done a portupgrade -Rf cvsup  but still have the core dump.
> 
> However I notice an oddity.
> 
> Despite having installed cvsup, turning X11 support on via config, pkg_info 
> reports that 
> cvsup-without-gui-16.1h_4
> is installed.
> 
> It does not look right.
> 
> Whilst cvsup is not part of the base system I am nonethesless totally puzzled 
> why cvsup should begin core dumping only after upgrading from 6.1 to 6.3 and 
> despite a portupgrade -Rf under 6.3.
> 
> I do not really want to complete my upgrading to 7.0 stable until I am sure 
> not to be dragging a current vulnerability into the new system !!!
> 
> Does anyone have any idea what may be going on here and/or whether 
> someone is willing to take a look at the core dump and make sense of it.
> 

Well, this probably won't help much, but I'm using cvsup/cvsupd on
8-current (amd64) with no problems.  However, my binaries are from
October, 2007, so this doesn't preclude a regression since then.

BTW the Makefile automatically turns off GUI support for amd64, which
is what you're running.

---
Gary Jennejohn



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