Subject: Re: snap-19981207 crashes on mucho memory.
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Frank van der Linden <frank@wins.uva.nl>
List: current-users
Date: 12/17/1998 17:05:19
On Thu, Dec 17, 1998 at 09:41:12AM -0500, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> 
> Lars-Johan Liman <liman@sunet.se> writes:
> > do anything more. No CPU type, no memory count, no i/f probing, just
> > crash. The message was:
> >   ELF symbol table not valid.
> 
> ELF symbol table not valid?!?!?!?

It would seem like the common DDB a.out/elf code, which is supposed to
do the right thing with regard to the format automagically, isn't working
here.

> Could you rebuild with your own kernel with ddb built in so that we
> could get a look at the crash stack?

I'd suggest to build a kernel _without_ DDB in this case :-)

- Frank