Re: Coredump question

From: JVanderwood (infoteq@dragon.azstarnet.com)
Date: 04/19/96


On Fri, 19 Apr 1996, Sean P. Mountcastle wrote:

> 
> 	We just upgraded our system to Linux 1.2.13 and now whenever the 
> mud dumps a corefile, if coredumpsize is unlimited we get a 330+ MB core, 
> if we set the size to 6000 kbytes we get a file of EXACTLY 6000 kbytes, 
> and on top of that gdb says:
> 
> Couldn't fetch registers from core file: File in wrong format.
> Couldn't fetch registers from core file: File in wrong format.
> #0 0x0 in ?? ()
> (gdb)
> 
> 	Any ideas on whats going wrong?  So far we've only installed the 
> a, d, n, and the disk with the Linux source on it.  Did we forget 
> something _VERY_ important?
> 
> 	Many thanks in advance,
> 
> 	- Sean

You need to upgrade to the 1.3.9 version of linux or better. That is the 
only solution we found to the problem. if you go to 1.3.18 you won't have
networking software.


JAy

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