Mike Pritchard writes: >I finally figured out my problem after quite a few reboots, and >forcing a few crash dumps. >It turns out that I had an old linux_base port installed, and when the >/usr/sbin/linux script ran /usr/compat/linux/sbin/ldconfig the version >I had, for whatever reason, wound up calling the reboot() system >call. I had this happen to me too, a while back on -current. The culprit is that the ldconfig executable wasn't branded as a Linux executable, so when the emulation code changed to look at the branding, the kernel assumed ldconfig was a FreeBSD executable, and apparently the executable has the right sequences of bytes to carry out a reboot system call. Anyway, using brandelf to mark the Linux ldconfig as being a Linux executable fixed that; presumably the current linux_base install does this automatically. >One odd thing, due to some outdated files in /etc/defaults (I think), I wasn't >even building the linux module and installing it. The kldload was failing, >but attempting to run the bad ldconfig still caused the machine to crash. >FreeBSD syscall # 55 = reboot, Linux syscall # 55 = fcntl. I wonder Aha, so *that's* where the bogus reboot came from. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
