> > > 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.
> 

The problem is that ld.elf_so is being given the DT_TEXTREL attribute by 
the linker, whic then causes the second part of the assertion to fail.  
This seems to be a side effect of the new binutils, so it's unclear to me 
why nobody else running a recent current has seen this.

R.