Hello,

mel kravitz <melk@switchpwr.com> writes:

> symlinks are present, /usr/lib/libc.so point to new libs defined by 4.99.39,
> similar for /lib files. I need only install base.tgz from 4.99.39
> release to examine the problem, in the case of firefox i used gdb to
> get the following interesting data:
> casey234: {24} gdb firefox firefox-bin.core
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> This GDB was configured as "alpha--netbsd"..."/usr/pkg/bin/firefox":
> not in executable format: File format not recognized

/usr/pkg/bin/firefox is (typically/always?) a shell script that sets up
a few things and then exec /usr/pkg/lib/firefox/firefox-bin, so the
format is not recognised by gdb.  Is the backtrace (with firefox-bin
instead of firefox) something like

  ...
  in pthread_mutex_init()
  ...
  from /usr/pkg/lib/libexpat
  ...
  previous frame inner to this one (stack corrupted?)

(from memory)?  In that case, there seems to be exactly the same problem on
powerpc (macppc) -- that is, someone is overwriting something in the
stack during dynamic linking.

--- Johan