Subject: Re: nbcksum core dumps on amd64
To: sgimips NetBSD list <sgimips@mrynet.com>
From: Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 06/16/2004 13:39:53
On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 11:54:09PM -0500, sgimips NetBSD list wrote:
> I've recently started using an amd64 machine as a host for my nightly
> release builds for a number of platforms and have discovered that
> nbcksum core dumps on the amd64.
> 
> I discovered it in the build.sh logs after the world had been built
> and the release sets were checksummed.  I investigated further and
> found that nbcksum itself simply dumps core, even without any
> command-line parameters:

I'm seeing this on 2 amd64 2.0F machines. I discovered it with
`nbstat' ... i just checked that other tools are affected as well.

njoly@calimero [NetBSD/src]> pwd
/local/src/NetBSD/src
njoly@calimero [NetBSD/src]> ../tool/amd64/bin/nbcap_mkdb
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  ../tool/amd64/bin/nbcap_mkdb
njoly@calimero [NetBSD/src]> ../tool/amd64/bin/nbcksum
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  ../tool/amd64/bin/nbcksum
njoly@calimero [NetBSD/src]> ../tool/amd64/bin/nbcompile_et
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  ../tool/amd64/bin/nbcompile_et
njoly@calimero [NetBSD/src]> ../tool/amd64/bin/nbdb
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  ../tool/amd64/bin/nbdb
njoly@calimero [NetBSD/src]> ../tool/amd64/bin/nbgencat
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  ../tool/amd64/bin/nbgencat
njoly@calimero [NetBSD/src]> ../tool/amd64/bin/nbinstall
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  ../tool/amd64/bin/nbinstall
njoly@calimero [NetBSD/src]> ../tool/amd64/bin/nbmkdep
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  ../tool/amd64/bin/nbmkdep
njoly@calimero [NetBSD/src]> ../tool/amd64/bin/nbmknod
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  ../tool/amd64/bin/nbmknod
njoly@calimero [NetBSD/src]> ../tool/amd64/bin/nbstat
zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped)  ../tool/amd64/bin/nbstat

-- 
Nicolas Joly

Biological Software and Databanks.
Institut Pasteur, Paris.