> > On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > 
> > > The link value in esigcode is from swi_entry, but the back-trace stops at
> > > esigcode.
> > 
> > Is this with a new -current userland too?
> > 
> > Cheers, Steve
> > 
> 
> Yes.  Everything except /etc and X.
> 
> R.
> 

Some progress.  If I boot with -a and use /rescue/init then I get a bit 
further.  It would appear to be a dynamic linker problem, since I get an 
assertion failure when trying to start /bin/sh (of course, if the same 
assertion was occuring in init, then I'd get an abort there, which does 
match what I'm seeing).

Failure is:

assertion "!_rtld_objself.pltgot && !_rtld_objself.textrel" in rtld.c line 
159

R.