John Polstra wrote:
>
> I've seen a few reports that CVSup has suddenly started dumping
> core on a segmentation violation under -current, but I need more
> information.
I received 3 reports on cvsup dumping core. At least 2 involved static
aout binaries. The third was solved by changing which shell was running
the script containing cvsup. (???)
> For starters, I would like to know whether the static
> binary (ports/net/cvsup-bin) works or not under the very latest
> -current on the i386.
It coredumps. See below.
>
> - which vintage of -current are you running?
FreeBSD scones.sup.scc.nl 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #17: Mon Oct
4 10:33:12 CEST 1999
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/SCONES i386
> - what is the output from "cvsup -v"?
***
*** runtime error:
*** Segmentation violation - possible attempt to dereference NIL
*** pc = 0x2f
***
Abort trap (core dumped)
> Note, you are going to have trouble getting much out of the core dumps
> from the binaries, because they're a.out. I've placed an unstripped
> ELF binary here if you'd like to help out by getting a stack trace:
Great! I'll get to it.
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