Re: [parisc-linux] What's a "Trace/breakpoint trap" and why does he crash my system?

[thunder7@xs4all.nl]

On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 03:50:06PM +0200, thunder7@xs4all.nl wrote:
> Well, I can boot 2.4.9-pa13 just fine on my C200, but trying to compile
> a kernel under that version never works, typing
> 
> make proper
> 
> in the source directory doesn't produce any output but
> 
> Trace/breakpoint error

should be 'Trace/breakpoint trap'
> 
> after one second or so.
> 
> I realize this is a worthless bug-report, but where does that message
> come from? The text is nowhere in the kernel-sources, so it must be
> something else.
> 
I tried running make under strace, and it ran fine. So I tried it again,
and I saw this:

--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) ---
rt_sigreturn(0)                         = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
read(4, "", 193)                        = 0
close(4)                                = 0
wait4(-1, [WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0], 0, NULL) = 265
pipe([4, 5])                            = 0
fork()                                  = 268
close(5)                                = 0
read(4, "/bin/sh\n", 200)               = 8
read(4, "", 192)                        = -512
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) ---
rt_sigreturn(0)                         = -1 EINTR (Interrupted system call)
read(4, "", 192)                        = 0
close(4)                                = 0
wait4(-1, [WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0], 0, NULL) = 268
pipe([4, 5])                            = 0
fork()                                  = 269
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) ---
rt_sigreturn(0)                         = 269
close(5)                                = 0
read(4, "/home/jurriaan/source/linux-2001"..., 200) = 37
read(4, "", 163)                        = 0
close(4)                                = 0
wait4(-1, [WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0], 0, NULL) = 269
read(3, "+= drivers/scsi/scsidrv.o\nDRIVER"..., 4096) = 4096
brk(0x4b000)                            = 0x4b000
brk(0x4c000)                            = 0x4c000
open("arch/parisc/Makefile", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 4
idle()                                  = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4001a000
read(4, "#\n# parisc/Makefile\n#\n# This fil"..., 4096) = 3156
pipe([5, 6])                            = 0
fork()                                  = 270
close(6)                                = 0
read(5, "", 200)                        = -512
--- SIGCHLD (Child exited) ---
rt_sigreturn(0

and then it hang. On reboot, it gave the same 'Trace/breakpoint trap'
error, but didn't hang. Next time I tried it, it did hang.

Jurriaan
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