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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: NetBSD - Kernel Rebuild problem
Date: 28 Apr 93 12:04:53
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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Message-ID: <CGD.93Apr28120453@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU>
References: <1993Apr23.023447.13339@oz.plymouth.edu>
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In-reply-to: ted@oz.plymouth.edu's message of Fri, 23 Apr 93 02:34:47 GMT

In article <1993Apr23.023447.13339@oz.plymouth.edu> ted@oz.plymouth.edu (The Wizard of Oz) writes:
>	loading 386bsd
>	rearranging symbols
>	couldn't find db_symtab symbols
>
>Needless to say I can only use the generic kernel that came with the 
>distribution (Unless I can live with ps, w, uptime, etc .... not working).

this is *NOT* a problem, at all...

what it means is that dbsym (the thing that makes symbol tables
for ddb) was run, noticed that it couldn't find db_symtab
(because ddb wasn't included in the kernel), and so whined a bit.


that's it.  the system will function normally (was about to say
perfectly, but...  8-) with this error message.  (a fatal error
would have killed the build...)


if you'd like ddb in your kernel, take a look in
the other kernel config files for examples.  i know BOAT_ANCHOR
has it compiled in, because that's our beat-me-until-i-break
machine...  8-)




chris
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Chris G. Demetriou                                    cgd@cs.berkeley.edu

   "386bsd as depth first search: whenever you go to fix something you
       find that 3 more things are actually broken." -- Adam Glass