Re: config(8) dumps core

From: M. Warner Losh <imp_at_bsdimp.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:07:00 -0600 (MDT)
In message: <20100429224938.GI90938_at_darkthrone.kvedulv.de>
            Michael Moll <kvedulv_at_kvedulv.de> writes:
: Hi,
: 
: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:30:06PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote:
: > /boot/kernel/kernel".  It looks like it thinks there's more data available 
: > than there is.
: > 
: > config/main.c gets the size of the configuration by running elfdump:
: > 
: > > elfdump -c /boot/kernel/kernel | grep -A 5 kern_conf | tail -2 | cut -d ' ' 
: > -f 2 | paste - - -
: > 
: > 10053368        2656
: > 
: > The first column is the offset, and the second is the number of bytes, but the 
: > embedded configuration only has 2649 bytes.
: 
: OK, that explains that with all the related commits backup out
: (207265-206664) the resulting config-binary still fails. I don't have
: time today to build the kernel with the different revisions to hunt the
: problem down to one commit...
: 
: imp_at_: The last commits to usr.sbin/config/* might have raised this
: problem, could you have a look at it?

Do you have a small, reproducible sequence of events that will
recreate this problem?  I've seen no problems at all in my testing.
I assume this is in -current?

Warner
Received on Thu Apr 29 2010 - 21:10:56 UTC

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