compat4x broken in FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE?

Devin Teske dteske at vicor.com
Wed Sep 22 20:10:41 UTC 2010


On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 12:56 -0700, Devin Teske wrote:
> You're missing "COMPAT_43" ... that seems serious and likely to be the
> cause of your "Exec format" error (below).

Heh, you don't get anymore *legacy* than that option. That option went
missing years ago (should remove that from our kernel configs).

It's actually exactly what CyberLeo Kitsans said...

On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 12:39 -0500, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: 
> I ran into this exact error message when I upgraded one amd64 machine
> from 8.0 to 8.1, and didn't read UPDATING close enough. Apparently
> COMPAT_IA32 was renamed to COMPAT_FREEBSD32 (20100406), and the new
> kernel I built lacked support for 32-bit binaries. UPDATING now says
> (20100417) that COMPAT_IA32 is an alias for COMPAT_FREEBSD32, but it
> could be something to double check in your case.



> During the upgrade process, I think your kernel config lost something

COMPAT_FREEBSD32 which used to be COMPAT_IA32 (as CyberLeo quickly
picked up on).
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Cheers,
Devin Teske

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