Re: Abort Trap question

2017-11-16 Thread Nick Holland
On 11/16/17 08:40, Ax0n wrote: > For what it's worth, bricking my main workstation in this way a few times > over the past 20 years yes the only reason I thought about it. It also got > me into a (good) habit of examining the paths and contents of archive files > every single time before I extrac

Re: Abort Trap question

2017-11-16 Thread edgar
> > On Nov 16, 2017 at 6:14 AM,wrote: > > > Haha crap. I think this is what happened. I haven’t bothered downloading > src.tar.gz in awhile bc of syspatch, but since this is a PowerPC machine, i > wanted to be ready for the first errata. This is what

Re: Abort Trap question

2017-11-16 Thread Ax0n
For what it's worth, bricking my main workstation in this way a few times over the past 20 years yes the only reason I thought about it. It also got me into a (good) habit of examining the paths and contents of archive files every single time before I extract them. On Nov 16, 2017 06:14, "Daniel B

tar bombs (was: RE: Abort Trap question)

2017-11-16 Thread leo_tck
Hi, "Daniel Boyd" wrote: > Haha crap. I think this is what happened. I haven't bothered downloading > src.tar.gz in awhile bc of syspatch, but since this is a PowerPC machine, i > wanted to be ready for the first errata. This is what I get for doing things > from memory instead of reading the

Re: Abort Trap question

2017-11-16 Thread Daniel Boyd
Haha crap. I think this is what happened. I haven’t bothered downloading src.tar.gz in awhile bc of syspatch, but since this is a PowerPC machine, i wanted to be ready for the first errata. This is what I get for doing things from memory instead of reading the FAQ. Right. Let’s pretend th

Re: Abort Trap question

2017-11-15 Thread Ax0n
A quick thought... are you extracting src.tar.gz into /usr (like you to with ports.tar.gz)? On a few occasions, I've done this (instead of making sure I'm in /usr/src first as I should) and had system binaries get clobbered. When I've accidentally done this in the past, I do get a bunch of abort tr

Re: Abort Trap question

2017-11-15 Thread patrick keshishian
On 11/15/17, Philip Guenther wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Mike Coddington > wrote: > >> On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 10:01:09AM -0600, Daniel Boyd wrote: >> > I've installed OpenBSD/macppc twice on my G4 Cube now and it seems to >> > be working fine until I go to untar src.tar.gz at whic

Re: Abort Trap question

2017-11-15 Thread Daniel Boyd
On Wed, 2017-11-15 at 13:35 -0800, Philip Guenther wrote: > > tar _is_ pax: > : corwin; ls -li /bin/tar /bin/pax > 52015 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root bin 433472 Nov 1 11:15 /bin/pax > 52015 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root bin 433472 Nov 1 11:15 /bin/tar > : corwin; > > Fundamentally, unless a userspace process is

Re: Abort Trap question

2017-11-15 Thread Philip Guenther
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 11:08 AM, Mike Coddington wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 10:01:09AM -0600, Daniel Boyd wrote: > > I've installed OpenBSD/macppc twice on my G4 Cube now and it seems to > > be working fine until I go to untar src.tar.gz at which point it throws > > some abort trap errors

Re: Abort Trap question

2017-11-15 Thread Daniel Boyd
On Wed, 2017-11-15 at 13:08 -0600, Mike Coddington wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 10:01:09AM -0600, Daniel Boyd wrote: > > I've installed OpenBSD/macppc twice on my G4 Cube now and it seems > > to > > be working fine until I go to untar src.tar.gz at which point it > > throws > > some abort trap

Re: Abort Trap question

2017-11-15 Thread Mike Coddington
On Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 10:01:09AM -0600, Daniel Boyd wrote: > I've installed OpenBSD/macppc twice on my G4 Cube now and it seems to > be working fine until I go to untar src.tar.gz at which point it throws > some abort trap errors and crashes. If I reboot, I get a bunch of > abort traps during th

Abort Trap question

2017-11-15 Thread Daniel Boyd
I've installed OpenBSD/macppc twice on my G4 Cube now and it seems to be working fine until I go to untar src.tar.gz at which point it throws some abort trap errors and crashes. If I reboot, I get a bunch of abort traps during the boot process followed by several: init: can't exec getty '/usr/lib