[lug] System.map issue

[Chris Riddoch]

"D. Stimits" <stimits at idcomm.com> writes:
> The web page isn't displayable. You may also wish to rename it on the
> web page System.map.txt. The display is:
>   [an internal server error occured] 

Okay, I should've checked that before just assuming the server
wouldn't treat .map files like that...

Try this, then:

http://www.peakpeak.com/~socket/System.map-corrupted.txt
http://www.peakpeak.com/~socket/System.map-original.txt

> Is your file in /usr/src/linux/System.map (I assume this is the same
> place in Debian as in RH and Slackware and many others) also corrupted?

No, it's not. I've posted that to the website so you can be sure of
it.

> Also, it is a *very* good idea to not copy it as System.map

I didn't, originally. I apparently use the same naming convention as
you for System.map, and I changed lilo.conf appropriately. I tried it
both ways, and both ways, it gets corrupted.

> ...I think only root needs to read this file during boot, but
> possibly others will later. And if some strange daemon runs as
> another user at some point during boot, perhaps a non-root user
> needs to read it earlier on. Perhaps it is silly, but be sure it is
> world readable.

Yes, I noticed the permissions changed, too. This is the original:

socket at laptop:~$ ls -l /usr/src/linux/System.map
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       428641 Feb 21 13:15 /usr/src/linux/System.map

And this is what it gets changed to, in it's corrupted form.

socket at laptop:~$ ls -l /boot/System.map
-rw-------    1 root     root        26624 Feb 22 12:53 /boot/System.map

> And if the file is different between the compile directory root and
> the /boot/ version, then replace it again with the compile directory
> version.

Every time I shutdown and start up again, it's corrupted. Every time I
notice it's corrupted, I replace it with the original.  I'd like to
not have to keep copying my System.map file every time I boot my
machine.

I even tried removing write permissions from System.map. It *still*
got changed.

*Something* is breaking this, and it's clearly not a problem with the
original file.

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