Re: port-amd64/42983: netbsd kernel has corrupted symbol table

["Christoph Egger" <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/42983; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Christoph Egger" <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, 
gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
 port-amd64-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: port-amd64/42983: netbsd kernel has corrupted symbol table
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:49:03 +0100

 > The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/42983; it has been noted by
 > GNATS.
 > 
 > From: "Jonathan A. Kollasch" <jakllsch%kollasch.net@localhost>
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: port-amd64-maintainer%netbsd.org@localhost, 
 > gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost,
 >      netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
 > Subject: Re: port-amd64/42983: netbsd kernel has corrupted symbol table
 > Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:56:24 +0000
 > 
 >  > 9970432+5696576+707616read symbols: Input/output error
 >  > boot: cd0a: netbsd: Input/output error
 >  
 >  This is due to the "/* Check for concatenated .gz files: */"
 >  block of code in cread.c around line 290.
 
 In my source tree, this is line 388.
 What fix do you propose?
   
 >  > # readelf -e /mnt/netbsd                                               
 >   
 >  > readelf: Error: Unable to read in 0x6a14 bytes of section headers
 >  
 >  it's a gzipped file:
 >  
 >  $ file -sz /mnt/netbsd                                       
 >  /mnt/netbsd: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV) (gzip
 > compressed data, from Unix, max compression)
 
 confirmed.