David Kelly
2007-Feb-21 05:07 UTC
kernel: link_elf_lookup_symbol: missing symbol hash table
Finally found a problem that started with 6.1-something then
fooling around I somehow put an end to it. Updated recently and now its
back. /var/log/messages (and dmesg) fill with:
Feb 19 07:53:39 Grumpy kernel: link_elf_lookup_symbol: missing symbol
hash table
Feb 19 07:53:39 Grumpy last message repeated 25 times
Feb 19 10:37:37 Grumpy kernel: link_elf_lookup_symbol: missing symbol
hash table
Feb 19 10:37:37 Grumpy last message repeated 25 times
Feb 19 13:16:21 Grumpy kernel: link_elf_lookup_symbol: missing symbol
hash table
Feb 19 13:16:21 Grumpy last message repeated 25 times
It starts very early in the booting process:
Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
The Regents of the University of California. All rights
reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Sun Feb 18 20:43:17 CST 2007
root@Grumpy.DynDNS.org:/usr5/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
link_elf_lookup_symbol: missing symbol hash table
link_elf_lookup_symbol: missing symbol hash table
link_elf_lookup_symbol: missing symbol hash table
link_elf_lookup_symbol: missing symbol hash table
link_elf_lookup_symbol: missing symbol hash table
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (2793.02-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf29 Stepping = 9
[...]
After fussing many hours, and posts to the FreeBSD lists last year, I
found the problem this week. Somehow nvidia_load="YES" had snuck
into /boot/loader.conf. Remember seeing a port say something of
Nvidia altho I do not have Nvidia hardware.
Anyway, apparently the Nvidia kernel module is a bad Elf. :-)
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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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