[13477] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 7.7R: Frame
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sat May 6 01:26:24 1995
Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 01:26:22 -0400
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[13476] in Athena Bugs"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> Subject: sun4 7.7R: Frame
> To: bugs@MIT.EDU
> Date: Fri, 05 May 1995 22:48:52 EDT
> From: Daniel L Rosenband <danlief@MIT.EDU>
This was me, incidently, when the user came in asking why
frame crashed...
> /mit/gnu//mit/frame/sun4release/bin/sunxm.s5.sparc%/mit/gnu/bin/gdb maker4.exe /var/tmp/frame.core
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> GDB 4.13 (sparc-sun-solaris2.3),
> Copyright 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc...
>
> maker4.exe: No such file or directory.
Oops. Open mouth, insert foot. Let's try that again, shall we?
[portnoy!jhawk] /mit/frame/sun4release/bin/sunxm.s5.sparc> /mit/gnu/bin/gdb maker4X.exe /afs/athena/contrib/bitbucket2/frame.core
GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of it
under certain conditions; type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB; type "show warranty" for details.
GDB 4.13 (sparc-sun-solaris2.3),
Copyright 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc...(no debugging symbols found)...
Core was generated by `/mit/frame/sun4release/bin/sunxm.s5.sparc/maker'.
Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
Cannot access memory at address 0xef7fd070.
#0 0xef696440 in xwsBitsPerPixel ()
(gdb) where
#0 0xef696440 in xwsBitsPerPixel ()
#1 0xef66cae8 in xwsBitsPerPixel ()
(gdb)
Hrumph. I'm not sure that's any better, but...
Perhaps this is due to the core file truncating when written to AFS?
--jhawk
