kldload broken?

Christian Weisgerber naddy at mips.inka.de
Mon Dec 22 06:15:54 PST 2003


-CURRENT/alpha from yesterday.

kldload(8) fails to load modules unless their complete path is given.
A simplified call, such as

    kldload sysvshm

(as used in /etc/rc.d/api) fails.  ktrace is rather mysterious:

...
  1240 kldload  CALL  kldload(0x11ffece0)
  1240 kldload  NAMI  "/boot/kernel/linker.hints"
  1240 kldload  NAMI  "/boot/kernel/kernel.GENERIC"
  1240 kldload  NAMI  "/boot/kernel/kernel.GENERIC"
  1240 kldload  RET   kldload -1 errno 8 Exec format error
...

(kernel.GENERIC isn't even the running kernel.  It's just another
kernel file that happens to be in that directory.)

-- 
Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de



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