[comp.soft-sys.andrew] nessrun dumps core on a system build

lrr@PRINCETON.EDU ("Lawrence R. Rogers") (08/23/90)

Sun-4/280, running 4.0.3.  Everything is the default.

# cd /usr/src/andrew/atk/ness/doc
# make dependInstallmake DESTDIR=/usr/andrew install
Checking Destination Directories....
touch install.time
(ANDREWDIR=/usr/andrew; export ANDREWDIR; \
 CLASSPATH=/usr/andrew/dlib/atk; export CLASSPATH; \
 WMHOST=; \
 /usr/andrew/bin/nessrun present.n nessauth.d)
sh: 7873 Illegal instruction - core dumped
*** Error code 132

Stop.
*** Error code 1

Stop.
# dbx /usr/andrew/bin/nessrun
Reading symbolic information...
Read 4843 symbols
(dbx) where
etext() at 0xbf350
etext() at 0xaa200
etext() at 0xaa370
etext() at 0xaa550
etext() at 0xa9d20
etext() at 0xa9dcc
etext() at 0xa2c50
etext() at 0xa2a98
etext() at 0xa2b44
class_NewObject() at 0x58ef4
main(argc = 3, argv = 0xf7fffe94), line 183 in "apps/runapp.c"
(dbx) 

What'd I do?  What can I do?  Thanks.

Larry Rogers

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susan+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Susan Straub) (08/24/90)

This fix will be in patch 7, which is being assembled as we speak. 

cwitty@csli.Stanford.EDU (Carl Witty) (08/24/90)

In article <9008231734.AA04087@nascar.Princeton.EDU> lrr@PRINCETON.EDU ("Lawrence R. Rogers") writes:
   What'd I do?  What can I do?  Thanks.

I had this problem myself.  It seems that "runapp" doesn't work for
some people on Sun 4's when it's dynamically linked (although it works
for others); see my previous message on the subject.

To see if this is your problem, try rebuilding runapp statically:

cd .../andrew/atk/apps
rm runapp
make install CDEBUGFLAGS='-O -Bstatic'

and see if nessrun works then.  If it does (or doesn't), tell me about
it--I'm conducting a survey to determine the scope of this problem.

Carl Witty
cwitty@cs.stanford.edu