[8007] in bugtraq
Re: FreeBSD VM gremlin
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Cracauer)
Tue Sep 22 13:12:29 1998
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 13:34:47 +0200
Reply-To: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@FREEBSD.ORG>
From: Martin Cracauer <cracauer@FREEBSD.ORG>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199809171449.KAA12350@zygorthian-space-raiders.mit.edu>; from
Charles M. Hannum on Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 10:49:57AM -0400
> 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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Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> <cracauer@freebsd.org>
