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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2343 ; Mon, 01 Mar 93 10:54:55 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!portal!mykes From: mykes@shell.portal.com (mike myke schwartz) Subject: my bug list Message-ID: <C33u2A.Ap0@unix.portal.com> Sender: news@unix.portal.com Nntp-Posting-Host: jobe Organization: Portal Communications Company X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1993 11:18:01 GMT Lines: 95 I run a Dell 486D/50, 2 IDE drives, Adaptec SCSI controller, CD ROM drive, PAS16 audio card, and WD8013 (Elite 16) eth card. I just rebuilt my kernel a few times, and have applied the ENTIRE patchkit-1.2. I also found a lp.c (printer patch) somewhere that I applied, as per the directions. Here is a summary of the bugs in my system that I have noticed so far: 1) I get mb_map full errors to the console when accessing an NFS mounted SUN 3/60 (sunos 4.1.1) drive over ethernet. This randomly trashes the files involved, or does not do the file access at all (i.e. a copy from/to the Sun fails altogether). 2) I get trap 6 and c compilers abort whenever a source file #include's <math.h> and <float.h>. I have changed my headers, manually, to represent the latest neosoft HUGE/MAXDBL #defines. I also am using options "i486" in my i386/conf/DELL file, as noted in the patches program's information for patch00060. I wonder if I should unpatch this one (patch0060)? 3) the IRQ for my Adaptec SCSI controller is at 10. I modified my /sys/i386/conf/DELL file to reflect IRQ 10 instead of IRQ 11. I only have the CDROM drive connected, and it is SCSI ID 4, LUN 0. The CDROM is not recognized. 4) My busmouse NEVER worked (ps/2 Microsoft mouse - a ms mouse that plugs into a din plug in the back of the machine). So I went and bought a cheapo Compudyne 3 button mouse. This mouse has a switch on the bottom that says "Microsoft/Mouse Systems" and XFree86-1.2 does NOT see the middle mouse button (the mouse has 3 obviously :) 5) I managed to get a whereis.db file made. However, man-k still fails because some of the lines in whereis.db are too long. 6) My Ethernet card requires a HARD reset each time I shutdown using 'sync;shutdown -h now'. The wd patch in the patchkit mentions both that the patch forces Unix to assume a wd eth card and something about checksums. However, it still doesn't get recognized after warm reboot. Yeah, I've read the buglist - but DOS manages to reset it, and so does OS/2. It obviously CAN be done. 7) ps -u causes a "floating exception" error. I did not remake ps after the kernel builds. I should try that... 8) This is a oddball bug... I have 2 A3000's (Amiga) and a Sun 3/60 on a local ethernet with the Dell/BSD machine. I have all the network files configured correctly, at least I am sure I have :) I can mount either of the amiga's exports from the Sun or the other amiga, but I get authentication error when I try to do it from the Dell. In short: Amiga<->Amiga works, Amiga<->Sun works, Sun<->Dell works, BUT Amiga<->Dell fails. I've reported this problem to Commodore, but they seem to think the problem is with the BSD networking software. 9) My machine randomly locks up when running XFree86 with the gwm window manager. GWM seems quite robust, however, and I think/hope the problem lies elsewhere (not a fan of twm). It isn't clear to me that there is any particular sequence of things I do to cause the lockups - I wish I could reproduce it... Anyhow, I found that the 5.1Meg swap partition that the boot diskette installed for me was not enough. I made a swap partition on the 2nd IDE drive that is 32Megs (2x my RAM), and configured this into the kernel. The 32Meg partition IS on cylinder boundries, as disklabel shows me no '*' for any of the partitions on the 2nd drive (there are only 2: wd1a and wd1b). The boot manifest shows me that swapon does indeed enable the swap partition. I took the 5.1M swap partition out of my /etc/fstab. Minor nits with the universe in general: 1) I'm using xdm (no crypt) and when I do shutdown, xdm tries to restart itself during the shutdown process. Already ONE time, this seems to have resulted in a fsck error on the next reboot. Basically, xdm comes partway up, the machine freezes, and I have to hit the reset button... 2) The faq's I've found seem to all be from last year sometime... 3) The vers.o patch is not exactly documented correctly. You need to do 'make newvers' in the ../compile/DELL directory. I mention it in case the right person sees this and fixes the docs :) 4) My taxes are too high, and are likely to be going higher :)) (hey, I said nits with the universe :) But hey, what can I expect for FREE? :) I am damn impressed and very thankful for all the great work that has gone into 386bsd to date! THANKS FOLKS!