ok, got ktrace working by building a KTRACE kernel. Sorry, i just assumed 
it was in there. 

anyway, all x binaries from sun-lamp segv instantly. kdump shows the open 
of ld.so, 32 byte reads for magic stuff, three mmaps, and then BOOM!

ldd fails with segv too. Any hints gratefully accepted. Even the sun-lamp 
imake blows up, hmm, is lamp running the same kernel as the binaries 
available for ftp? I tried to compile an x11 tree that i have on a linux 
cdrom, but the Project.tmpl from the linux source cdrom is contaminated with 
what looks like linux-specific glop (i thought this was bad form ...). 

thanks
ron

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