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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!oz.plymouth.edu!ted From: ted@oz.plymouth.edu (The Wizard of Oz) Subject: Re: NetBSD - Kernel Rebuild problem Message-ID: <1993Apr25.221034.25774@oz.plymouth.edu> Organization: Plymouth State College - Plymouth, NH. References: <1993Apr23.023447.13339@oz.plymouth.edu> <C5xzAo.5ov@news.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: Sun, 25 Apr 93 22:10:34 GMT Lines: 37 In article <C5xzAo.5ov@news.cso.uiuc.edu> rb6775@dclipc13.cen.uiuc.edu (Rafal Krzysztof Boni) writes: >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. > > 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 ;> The kernel does run, but..... I added the "-g" option, no difference. I did not say the kernel did not work. I should have said the it makes it so that (w, ps -aux, uptime and anything else that references the kernel for info does not work.) | Ted Wisniewski INET: ted@oz.plymouth.edu | | Academic Computing or | | Plymouth State College tedw@psc.plymouth.edu | | Plymouth NH, 03264 |