Heard of this?

[Stephen Sanders]

Thanks for the reply.  The kernel is custom but the changes are in the
ethernet packet dis-assembly code.  These changes haven't been a problem
in the past but started to be a problem in 6.3.

Thanks for the tip on compat5x.  I'll look into that.


On Fri, 2009-01-23 at 17:56 -0800, Xin LI wrote:
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> Stephen Sanders wrote:
> > I'm tracking what I believe to be a bug in 32 bit compat5x.
> > 
> > The situation is as follows:
> > 
> > 6.3 amd64 FreeBSD running 32 bit FreeBSD 5.3 applications.  On fairly
> > random intervals, applications core drop in open(), fopen(), and kill()
> > in the 32 bit compat5x layer.  The core usually occur during process
> > startup.
> > 
> > A) Does this sound familiar.
> 
> Nope...  Do you have a custom built kernel or is it the stock kernel?
> Is it possible for you to try running a FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE kernel?
> 
> > B) Is there a specific place in the source tree to look for compat5x?
> 
> Basically compat5x is just library from FreeBSD 5.x, say, 5.4.
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> Cheers,
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