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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!cass.ma02.bull.com!petra!news.bbn.com!noc.near.net!howland.reston.ans.net!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!news.cso.uiuc.edu!dclipc13.cen.uiuc.edu!rb6775 From: rb6775@dclipc13.cen.uiuc.edu (Rafal Krzysztof Boni) Subject: Re: NetBSD - Kernel Rebuild problem Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1993 15:06:24 GMT Message-ID: <C5xzAo.5ov@news.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <1993Apr23.023447.13339@oz.plymouth.edu> Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 41 ted@oz.plymouth.edu (The Wizard of Oz) writes: >Maybe someone can help me, I am running the new 'NetBSD distribution' >with all the corresponding '*08.*' distribution sets. When I rebuild >the kernel I get: > loading 386bsd > rearranging symbols > couldn't find db_symtab symbols >Needless to say I can only use the generic kernel that came with the >distribution (Unless I can live with ps, w, uptime, etc .... not working). >Does anyone know how repair this little problem? I poked around >but could not figure out what to do about it. The 'dbsym' command >is what prints the error message. Any help would be appreciated. > --> Ted >| Ted Wisniewski INET: ted@oz.plymouth.edu | >| Academic Computing or | >| Plymouth State College tedw@psc.plymouth.edu | >| Plymouth NH, 03264 | I've also seen this problem when building kernels, but I don't think it's as bad as you make it sound, because I've built 2 or 3 already and all of them have run... I think the error message results from you NOT using the "-g" option of gcc, which produces the debugging symbols... In other words, the kernel you build should still work... Mine do ;> Rafal /------------------------------------------------------------------------\ |Rafal Boni r-boni@uiuc.edu| |"Me have a .sig?? I don't even have a clue!" rkb55989@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu| | -Anonymous rb6775@caffeine.cen.uiuc.edu| \------------------------------------------------------------------------/