Re: FreeBSD VM gremlin

From: Martin Cracauer (cracauerat_private)
Date: Tue Sep 22 1998 - 04:34:47 PDT

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> I was debugging a (large) program using GDB on an xterm (which
> prevented me from getting the exact text, as you will see).  This
> is on 2.2.6-RELEASE on a P6-200 with 128M ram.  I was running as
> a normal user, not root.
>
> I issued the "run" command and GDB said that /usr/lib/libc.so.3.1
> had changed and it was re-loading it.  That was followed immediately
> by X freezing, and then a spontaneous re-boot.
>
> After the system re-booted, sure enough the date on /usr/lib/libc.so.3.1
> had been changed!

The fix for this problem has been in FreeBSD-current since April 1997
and is now merged into the FreeBSD-stable branch. That means, it is in
all active branches and will be in the 3.0 and 2.2.8 releases.

Martin
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