Re: fsck seg fault failure on vmware -i386?

[yancm%sdf.lonestar.org@localhost]

> On Feb 5,  1:27pm, yancm%sdf.lonestar.org@localhost 
> (yancm%sdf.lonestar.org@localhost)
wrote:
> -- Subject: Re: fsck seg fault failure on vmware -i386?
>
> | >Oh, it is dying inside asctime! Can you build a debugging libc, |
>(MKDEBUG=yes)and then link fsck with -lc_g?
> |
> | I'd be glad to, but I only have build experience with build.sh |
> | I made a debug version of fsck_ffs by adding -g to cflags in
> | the Makefile in src/bin/fsck_ffs directory...and copying out of |
/usr/object/bin...
> cd  /usr/src/sbin/fsck_ffs
> cp /usr/src/lib/libc/time/localtime.c
> # patch the Makefile
> -       ffs_tables.c ffs_appleufs.c partutil.c snapshot.c
> +       ffs_tables.c ffs_appleufs.c partutil.c snapshot.c localtime.c
>
> +CPPFLAGS+=-I${NETBSDSRCDIR}/lib/libc/include
> +CPPFLAGS+=-I${NETBSDSRCDIR}/lib/libc/time
>  FSCK=  ${NETBSDSRCDIR}/sbin/fsck
>  DUMP=  ${NETBSDSRCDIR}/sbin/dump
>  CPPFLAGS+=-I${FSCK} -I${DUMP}

Hmmm. Now it doesn't crash. 8-}

I took this exe back to the failed state snapshot and verified it.

/rescue/fsck_ffs crashed.

With localtime compiled in directly, fsck_ffs does not crash?

Please explain??? Guessing you suspected this was the case?
--gene