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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA2364 ; Mon, 01 Mar 93 10:56:03 EST Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@cs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Subject: Re: my bug list Message-ID: <1993Feb27.235240.7476@coe.montana.edu> Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, MSU, Bozeman Mt 59717 References: <C33u2A.Ap0@unix.portal.com> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1993 23:52:40 GMT Lines: 138 In article <C33u2A.Ap0@unix.portal.com> mykes@shell.portal.com (mike myke schwartz) writes: >I run a Dell 486D/50, 2 IDE drives, Adaptec SCSI controller, CD ROM >drive, PAS16 audio card, and WD8013 (Elite 16) eth card. >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). Hmm, never seen this. You might try to get one of the newer WD ethernet driver's on ref.. > >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)? > Tell us your results are when you remove it. There are problems with some library routines that need fixing, and there are people looking at it. >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. Are you using Julian's SCSI drivers? If not, as far as I can remember it will not notice on bootup, but it will connect to the drive the first time you access the device. > >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 :) > Which way is the switch connected? If it is in Microsoft mode, make sure you have Microsoft in the mouse comment field in your Xconfig. If it's mouse-systems, use the Logitech version. Also, make sure the mouse works by using kermit to connect to the port and move your mouse around. >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. Hmm, can you give examples of this. > >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. They do things that Berkeley Unix avoids. > >7) ps -u causes a "floating exception" error. I did not remake > ps after the kernel builds. I should try that... Can't get a fixed version unless you re-compile.... :-) > >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. Have you recompiled mountd? Make sure you re-compile any files that were changed in the patchkit. I don't think that is the fix, but you never know. > >9) My machine randomly locks up when running XFree86 with the gwm > window manager. How much memory do you have? You didn't mention it above, but if you start using up lots of memory, it will start paging, and when heavy paging occurs 'Bad Things' happen. It works for awhile, but you can't get anything done, and then it will appear to lockup. We had a 386SX-16 'locked up' that got the prompt back 20 minutes after we typed ^Z. However, even then it was pretty unusable (everything was still in memory), so we reseted the machine. > >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... Have you re-compiled init?? > >2) The faq's I've found seem to all be from last year sometime... I did one of them, and haven't had the time to update it. If you got some free time, you're welcome to update them. :-) > >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 :) > It's not documented at all. You need to re-make config, install it, config your kernel, make depend in your MACHINENAME directory and vers.o will be updated. You DO NOT NEED TO DO A make newvers. Nate -- osynw@terra.oscs.montana.edu | Still trying to find a good reason for nate@cs.montana.edu | these 'computer' things. Personally, work #: (406) 994-4836 | I don't think they'll catch on - home #: (406) 586-0579 | Don Hammerstrom