Re: wired syslog message

Jauder Ho (jauderho@umich.edu)
Mon, 15 Apr 1996 23:33:01 -0400 (EDT)


hmm I am using binutils 2.6.0.12. Could that be it? I don't
remember if I saw this message when I was using 2.6.0.11. In addition I
am using 5.3.10

--Jauder

On Mon, 15 Apr 1996, Mike Castle wrote:

> Amazingly enough Jauder Ho said:
> > > Date: Fri, 12 Apr 1996 11:47:08 -0400 (EDT)
> > > From: Jauder Ho <jauderho@umich.edu>
> > > cc: rlk@tiac.net
> > >
> > > I get this on boot up for 1.3.87 + pentium memcpy patch
> > >
> > > Apr 12 11:42:50 turtle kernel: Error in symbol table input.
> > >
> > > I have gotten this message since .84 or 85
>
> Hmm. Are you running any thing that tries to look at System.map?
> Have you upgraded your binutils recently?
>
> I noticed that dosemu had a problem with System.map recently. It
> turned out that 'nm' that comes with the latest binutils creates
> a slightly different System.map now. There are a lot more
> leading 0's. I'm not sure why this is.
>
> [
> Btw, will this affect ksymoops? Which, I've never been able to
> get to work anyway and if anyone wants to help, I'd appreciate
> it.
> ]
>
> I seem to remember that the developer of sysklog stuff was trying
> to add some of the ksymoops capabilities into those programs.
> But I don't remember what versions or anything. Perhaps one of
> those programs is having a problem.
>
> mrc
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