Subject: Re: error message
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/08/2000 19:08:43
olvidarteesmasdificil@hotmail.com (ERNESTO GUEVARA) writes:
> does anybody know what the error "bad system call (core dumped)" mean?
> I get it when i try to run the Napster client for NetBSD on my
> computer. Thank you

In practice it means that you are probably running a really old kernel
and the binary you are running is generating a newer system call that
isn't supported by your kernel.

(Of course this also assumes that you are really running a binary that
was compiled for a Netbsd system.)

-wolfgang
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