> 
> > > There's only one problem: cpp crashes the machine. Yes, folks, I can swap
> > > [etc]
> >
> > Sounds like you hit something obscure. Try 1.2.1.
> 
> I ftped and installed 1.2.1 this evening, with precisely the same results--
> both the cpp panics and the gdb weirdness live on in all their glory.
> 
> The gdb thing is the most annoying, because if I had a working gdb I could
> at least try and do something with the crash dump. The exact command line I
> type is: "gdb -k netbsd.0 netbsd.0.core", and it prints its copyright
> message, loads the kernel image, and says:
> "/home/mac/benco/mac-crash/netbsd.0.core: No such file or directory". Yes,
> the file does exist :-) ktrace on the gdb process yields nothing in the way
> of understanding; in fact it shows that it opens the core file quite
> successfully and even reads data from it.

Hmmm. I have no clue. Other than get the source for GDB and see what it's
doing. That'd be ironic to use gdb on gdb. :-)

Does the ktrace show any of the reads returning an error? How big is the
core image? Does anyone know how big it should be?

Take care,

Bill