re: Bus error from bochs; was Re: dependancies of bochs.

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

Robert Swindells writes:
> 
> peter%easthope.ca@localhost wrote:
> >xterm is useable.  bochs opens a window and after a few seconds 
> >it crashes.
> >
> >[1] Bus error (core dumped) bochs
> >
> >If there are any ideas about that I can follow up tomorrow.
> 
> Why do you want to run bochs on a sparc 2 ? There must be a faster
> x86 machine in a dumpster fairly near you.

:-)

> You could always try running gdb on the core dump:
> 
> % gdb /usr/pkg/bin/bochs bochs.core
> 
> My first guess would be that it may be trying to mmap() something
> in the 'hole' in the sun4c MMU.

i'm used to that being more likely an unaligned access.  gdb is the
right next step, indeed.

thanks.


.mrg.