Re: savecore: BFD: BFD 2.17.50 [FreeBSD] 2007-07-03 assertion fail /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libbfd/../../../../contrib/binutils/bfd/elf64-x86-64.c:276

On 10/23/18 10:58 AM, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
> Hello, I have a freshly built 12.0-ALPHA10 (r339406) and the kernel
> panicked at some point (another mail coming on that).
> 
> I have a full dump partition enabled, but during savecore
> quite lot BFD assertion messages appear:
> 
> Tue Oct 23 18:45:53 CEST 2018
> 
> FreeBSD radziecki 12.0-ALPHA10 FreeBSD 12.0-ALPHA10 r339406 GENERIC  amd64
> 
> panic: 
> 
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> This GDB was configured as "amd64-marcel-freebsd"...BFD: /boot/kernel/kernel: invalid relocation type 37
> BFD: BFD 2.17.50 [FreeBSD] 2007-07-03 assertion fail /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/binutils/libbfd/../../../../contrib/binutils/bfd/elf64-x86-64.c:276
> 
> The kernel has been built on 11.1 with LD=/usr/bin/ld.lld
> 
> Is this something that matters at all?

It is not something that is likely to be fixed.  If you pkg install gdb from
ports, is the kgdb it includes able to examine the crash dump?

-- 
John Baldwin