From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 30 6:20: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C240E37B40A for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 06:20:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id PAA09011; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:19:58 +0200 (CEST) Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) id f7UD5MV59195; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:05:22 +0200 (MET DST) (envelope-from j) Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 15:05:22 +0200 From: Joerg Wunsch To: Philipp Mergenthaler , Peter Wemm Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: old BSD/OS binary coredumps Message-ID: <20010830150522.A59172@uriah.heep.sax.de> Reply-To: Joerg Wunsch References: <20010829085053.A52695@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20010829074953.275FD3906@overcee.netplex.com.au> <20010829085053.A52695@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20010829102229.A7573@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20010829102229.A7573@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>; from un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 10:22:29AM +0200 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG As Philipp Mergenthaler wrote: > I saw something like this some time ago, too. In my case it was > because in kern_sysctl:ogetkerninfo(), in "case KINFO_BSDI_SYSINFO:", > the variable "size" is not always given a value. Maybe the patch in > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=25476 > fixes it for you, too? I'll have a look at that. As Peter Wemm wrote: > That is certainly odd. Can you put a .tar.gz of whatever is needed to > replicate it somewhere? eg: on http://freefall/~joerg/ ? http://people.freebsd.org/~joerg/netscape.bz That's just the binary itself, i verified in a chroot environment that's all you need to reproduce it (here at least). Ignore all the warnings about missing keysyms etc., the don't influence the coredump behaviour. > What is the last -current kernel build date that it ran under? My old kernel was from 2001-06-07. > Have you removed COMPAT_43 by any chance? No. (I think the kernel cannot even be linked when omitting this, i once tried it.) The only change to the config file was to remove the userconfig stuff now. -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message