bus error

[David S. Jackson]

On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:49:19PM -0700 Joshua Oreman <oremanj at www.get-linux.org> wrote:
> > for xinit.core:
> > #0  0x2805826b in memset () from /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1
> > Cannot access memory at address 0xbfbfe6bc.
> 
> As I feared. If you've got the developer mentality, forge ahead.
> If not, forget about it :-)
> 
> You have to recompile those programs with debugging flags.
> make configure the port, take a look at the software Makefile
> (the one in work/<portname>-<portversion>/), and look for a
> line that starts with CFLAGS=. Add ` -g' (without the quotes, of
> course), to the end. Run make inside the software directory
> (/usr/ports/<category>/<port>/work/<port>-<portversion>/).
> Take the newly produced executable (it should be either in the
> directory you ran 'make' in, or one of the subdirectories) and
> run it under gdb (gdb myexecutable). Type `run' at the gdb prompt.
> When it crashes, type `bt'. Send us the output :-)

Turns out make doesn't finish operating.  pkg -r'ed another vim
package,

This time when I execute it:

/usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6: invalid file
format.

Strangely, this happened while in a tty, not an x window.  (X
won't start, still.)



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