Subject: Re: Repeatable crash
To: None <david@l8s.co.uk>
From: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamt@mwd.biglobe.ne.jp>
List: current-users
Date: 02/05/2008 08:14:18
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 02:03:28PM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 03:40:02AM -0800, Paul Goyette wrote:
> >
> > > This is from a 4.99.49 kernel and userland built from sources dated
> > > 2008-01-24 21:14:50 UTC
> > >
> > > Usually, I run build.sh on the machine that actually contains the
> > > source, but this time I ran it on another host. The entire /usr/src and
> > > /usr/obj directories were NFS-mounted. The crash happens about 30 or 40
> > > minutes after starting build.sh and it happens at different places, so I
> > > don't think it's data-specific; rather I suspect some strange race
> > > condition. The back-traces don't seem terribly usefule (maybe gdb is
> > > out-of-sync with the trap stack-frame again?).
> >
> > The trap frame layout changed, I think dsl@netbsd.org is looking at it.
> > Did you get anything out of ddb?
>
> I have a local fix, but nick needs to sort one out that can be given
> back to the FSF.
> The os specific parts of gdb are all done with 100s of magic constants!
>
> David
>
> --
> David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk
i always feel that it essentially belongs to libkvm, not gdb.
YAMAMOTO Takashi