Review: ptrace doc update / minor code question-correction

2000-10-12 Thread John DeBoskey
Hi, I've been working with ptrace() and thought I'd take the time to make a minor update to the man page: Index: ptrace.2 === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/lib/libc/sys/ptrace.2,v retrieving revision 1.14 diff -u -r1.14 ptrace.2 ---

ccd causing page fault in kernel

2000-10-07 Thread John DeBoskey
Hi, I don't have alot of information to provide yet on this yet. The fault information scrolls off the top of the console... I have /usr/obj mounted on a ccd. Less then 2 minutes into a make world, the console shows a ccd problem, error 5. Page fault in the kernel. The above problem

/modules vs. /boot/kernel

2000-09-26 Thread John DeBoskey
Hi, Just a heads up on a minor problem I ran into... I've had a system running 5.0-current from about 3 months ago... that system kept modules in /modules. After upgrading to -current as of today, vinum would nolonger load, complaining about: link_elf: symbol tsleep undefined

gdb bug w/ dlopen()ed images

2000-08-24 Thread John DeBoskey
Hi, There appears to be a problem with gdb when debugging dynamically loaded images. On 5.0-current with sources current and built as of this evenning and a 4.1-STABLE system, the following incorrect result is seen: %gdb ./testmain GNU gdb 4.18 (gdb) b main Breakpoint 1 at 0x804853f: file

5.0-20000706-SNAP boot floppy failure

2000-07-09 Thread John DeBoskey
Hi, In case anyone else it seeing this yet, or possibly working on it, the 0706 snap boot floppy boots up into sysinstall and then hangs. Switching to the debug screen yields: DEBUG: ioctl(3, TIOCCONS, NULL) = 0 (success) DEBUG: Can't open PC-card controller /dev/card0. and that's

make install of new kernel fails (bad /modules)

2000-06-13 Thread John DeBoskey
Hi, On a freshly installed snap (5.0-2612-SNAP), after compiling up a new kernel, the make install fails. Basically, it tries to 'cp /modules/* /modules.old' but /modules is empty and the cp fails. We need to either recognize an empty directory, or not fail if the cp fails. the