Subject: Sysinst seg fault w/1.6
To: None <port-pmax@netbsd.org>
From: Christopher Tribo <t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu>
List: port-pmax
Date: 11/20/2002 06:51:29
Strange things are afoot at the circle K. I grabed sysinst out of
installation/netboot/diskimage.tgz on ftp.netbsd.org (same mirror I
downloaded the ISO from). Loaded up gdb with the core file and GDB pops up
with a warning saying it can't find the beginning of the function at
0x58d80c. Playing with heurestic-fence-post didn't really turn anything
up. I doubt the linker or assembler screwed up making the binary, but I
doubt it. Right now I'm guessing that sysinst overwrote enough of
the stack frame that the core file is useless, unless I'm missing
something else. Any ideas? My next guess is to run sysinst through gdb on
a spare disk and see if it does the same thing, hopefully without
clobbering my existing install in the "process." [pun intended] Maybe that
way gdb will be able to put two and two together.
The sysinst binary in the kernel ram disk and the one from
diskimage.tgz are the same exact binary right?
Chris
(who is building a -current release on his 5000/240 right now, since the
last snapshot is from more than a year ago)