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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!199.232.136.71!venus.os.com!news.os.com!craigs From: craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Working programs DIE on 2.2 RELEASE. Please help! Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 01:19:57 -0500 Organization: Orbit Systems Lines: 29 Message-ID: <craigs-ya02408000R2403970119570001@news.os.com> References: <5gv3g2$kbs$1@post.servtech.com> <5h45hr$ii7@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: titan.os.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.4.0 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:37645 In article <5h45hr$ii7@uriah.heep.sax.de>, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) wrote: > smc@cyber2.servtech.com (shawn carey) wrote: > > > We have been running a program of ours on FreeBSD, all the way back > > to FreeBSD release 1.1. We are now having a problem with this > > program when we try to run under gdb on 2.2-RELEASE, where gdb > > reports "Process killed due to text file modification". > > The only idea i've got is that you're suffering from some hardware > problem, like cache coherency or such, where your binaries are being > clobbered on the disk. It looks really weird.> > On my 2.2 system, anything that had knowledge of kmem needed to be recompiled. For example, a 2.1.7 kernel will not run networking after a reboot on a 2.2 system that was installed via cvsup. The 2.1.7 kernel could not recognize my SMC PCI Ethernet cards after I did a "make world." Many of my ports, like gated and top, needed rebuilding. After that, everything worked fine. -Craig -- Orbit Data Systems, Inc. Craig Shrimpton 400 Grove Street 508-753-8776 Worcester, MA 01605 http://www.os.com/