Subject: bin/25298: modload of vmware3 lkm's are coredumping on -current
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.NetBSD.org>
From: None <kwellsch@tampabay.rr.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/23/2004 21:50:36
>Number:         25298
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       lkm's for vmware coredump on bootup (and any other time)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    bin-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Apr 24 01:51:01 UTC 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     
>Release:        NetBSD 2.0D
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD arundel.fortyfour.org 2.0D NetBSD 2.0D (ARUNDEL) #0: Fri Apr 23 20:57:29 EDT 2004 root@arundel.fortyfour.org:/sys/arch/i386/compile/ARUNDEL i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:

(gdb) run -R /dev/ksyms -e vmmon_lkmentry -o vmmon -Ttext 0x0 vmmon.o
Starting program: /usr/pkg/lkm/ld -R /dev/ksyms -e vmmon_lkmentry -o vmmon -Ttext 0x0 vmmon.o
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xbdbb761b in bfd_elf32_bfd_link_add_symbols () from /usr/lib/libbfd.so.6
(gdb) where
#0  0xbdbb761b in bfd_elf32_bfd_link_add_symbols () from /usr/lib/libbfd.so.6
#1  0x0805193d in load_symbols ()
#2  0x080521c9 in open_input_bfds ()
#3  0x08054825 in lang_process ()
#4  0x08056cf9 in main ()
#5  0x0804a492 in ___start ()
(gdb) quit

# ld -R /dev/ksyms -e vmmon_lkmentry -o vmmon -Ttext 0x0 vmmon.o
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

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