Re: strange failure to run

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 19 Jul 2016, bch wrote:

> Running cc(1) or cvs(1) fails with the following. My kernel/userland
> is very up-to-date, but my machine did just shutdown w/ a dead
> battery, too ( it usually catches the issue quickly enough and issues
> a shutdown, though I'm not sure that happened in time this instance).
>
>
> Anybody else experiencing anything similar, have ideas off top of head ?

How large are the files, actually?  'ls -l'

Also, perhaps the files have been corrupted - 'objdump -h' might be 
useful, too.

I'm suspecting on-disk corruption somewhere - do you have a backup copy 
that you could restore from?


> -bch
>
>
> kamloops# ktruss cvs -q update -Pd .
> ktruss: exec of 'cvs' failed: File too large
>   146      1 ktruss   fcntl(0x4, 0x3, 0)          = 4194305
>   146      1 ktruss   emul(netbsd)
>   146      1 ktruss   fcntl(0x4, 0x4, 0x400001)   = 0
>   146      1 ktruss   execve("/sbin/cvs", 0x7f7fffaf1048,
> 0x7f7fffaf1078) Err#2 ENOENT
>   146      1 ktruss   execve("/usr/sbin/cvs", 0x7f7fffaf1048,
> 0x7f7fffaf1078) Err#2 ENOENT
>   146      1 ktruss   execve("/bin/cvs", 0x7f7fffaf1048,
> 0x7f7fffaf1078) Err#2 ENOENT
>   146      1 ktruss   execve("/usr/bin/cvs", 0x7f7fffaf1048,
> 0x7f7fffaf1078) Err#27 EFBIG
>   146      1 ktruss   write(0x2, 0x7f7fffaf0910, 0x8) = 8
>       "ktruss: "
>   146      1 ktruss   write(0x2, 0x7f7fffaf0a00, 0x14) = 20
>       "exec of 'cvs' failed"
>   146      1 ktruss   write(0x2, 0x7a6a4632bbed, 0x2) = 2
>       ": "
>   146      1 ktruss   __sysctl(0x7f7fffaf0980, 0x2, 0x7a6a46574048,
> 0x7f7fffaf0990, 0, 0) = 0
>   146      1 ktruss   __sysctl(0x7f7fffaf08c0, 0x2, 0x7a6a4657ca08,
> 0x7f7fffaf08c8, 0, 0) = 0
>   146      1 ktruss   readlink("/etc/malloc.conf", 0x7f7fffaf09c0,
> 0x400) Err#2 ENOENT
>   146      1 ktruss   mmap(0, 0x1000, 0x3, 0x1002, 0xffffffff, 0, 0)
> = 0x7a6a465ab000
>   146      1 ktruss   mmap(0, 0x1000, 0x3, 0x1002, 0xffffffff, 0, 0)
> = 0x7a6a465aa000
>   146      1 ktruss   mmap(0, 0x100000, 0x3, 0x14001002, 0xffffffff,
> 0, 0) = 0x7a6a46100000
>   146      1 ktruss   issetugid()                 = 0
>   146      1 ktruss   open("/usr/share/nls/nls.alias.db", 0x400000,
> 0x7f7fffaf011b) Err#2 ENOENT
>   146      1 ktruss   open("/usr/share/nls/nls.alias", 0x400000, 0) = 3
>   146      1 ktruss   __fstat50(0x3, 0x7f7fffaf0480) = 0
>   146      1 ktruss   mmap(0, 0x5f0, 0x1, 0x2, 0x3, 0, 0) = 0x7a6a465a9000
>   146      1 ktruss   close(0x3)                  = 0
>   146      1 ktruss   munmap(0x7a6a465a9000, 0x5f0) = 0
>   146      1 ktruss   open("/usr/share/nls/C/libc.cat", 0x400000, 0x3a) = 3
>   146      1 ktruss   __fstat50(0x3, 0x7f7fffaf0500) = 0
>   146      1 ktruss   mmap(0, 0x10be, 0x1, 0x1, 0x3, 0, 0) = 0x7a6a465a8000
>   146      1 ktruss   close(0x3)                  = 0
>   146      1 ktruss   munmap(0x7a6a465a8000, 0x10be) = 0
>   146      1 ktruss   write(0x2, 0x7f7fffaf0910, 0xf) = 15
>       "File too large\n"
>   146      1 ktruss   _lwp_self()                 = 1
>   146      1 ktruss   __sigprocmask14(0x1, 0x7f7fffaf0d90, 0x7f7fffaf0dc0) = 0
>   146      1 ktruss   __sigprocmask14(0x3, 0x7f7fffaf0dc0, 0) = 0
>   146      1 ktruss   _lwp_self()                 = 1
>   146      1 ktruss   __sigprocmask14(0x1, 0x7f7fffaf0d90, 0x7f7fffaf0dc0) = 0
>   146      1 ktruss   __sigprocmask14(0x3, 0x7f7fffaf0dc0, 0) = 0
>   146      1 ktruss   exit(0x1)
>
> !DSPAM:578eac87107122060115714!

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