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From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Config cannot compile kernal.
Date: 21 May 1996 17:19:15 +0100
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Eric Yagerlener (eyager@sulaco.novagate.com) wrote:
: I have FreeBSD 2.1.0 and am running it on a Pentium 60 with 8 megs of 
: RAM.  Currently I am running the Generic kernal that came with the 
: distribution.  Whenever I try to run config on the kernal I want to 
: create, it crashes because of a memory segmentation fault. (Exit on 
: signal 11)  It doesn't matter what kernal I try to compile (LINT or 
: GENERIC)  I tried going down to the single user mode to compile the 
: kernal and config still exits on signal 11.

: Anyone have any idea what is going wrong or how I may fix this?

What does gdb say is going on (gdb /usr/sbin/config config.core, bt)?  Do
you have a /sys/compile directory that's writable by the user that's doing
the 'config' ?  Are you using /usr/sbin/config (type (whereis) config)?

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Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....