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From: fm35@rummelplatz.uni-mannheim.de (Manfred Sabo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: [NetBSD 0.8] Various and sundry (but not too bad)
Date: 4 Jun 1993 15:56:14 GMT
Organization: Uni Mannheim
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Daniel R. Guilderson (drg@candidus.ma30.bull.com) wrote:
a list of minor bugs, here are a few more.

syslogd: hangs up the terminal session on output to dev/console.
When syslogd is not started, then timed hangs the terminal session
with it's THIS IS A SLAVE output.

After getting all the new sources from sun-lamp, and compiling
them in the order 'share/mk' 'include' 'lib' etc. and so on and
ar'ing libc.a and libc_p.a by hand as lorder and co seemed to hang
on it. I installed all but src/gnu. 

The reboot problem happened with 0.8 on certain machines, but not
on the one which is running 0.8a now.

A telnet with a newly compiled binary to the outside world or to
the local hostname on the dev/vga results in a
vm_fault(fe3b6200, 290000, 1, 0) -> 1
  type c, code 0
trap type 12 code = 0 eip = fe00ea1e cs = fe000008 efalgs = 10287
  cr2 290000 cpl 41a
Probably not much as its kernel dependent i guess. It is only readable
if the other machine is down, else the kernel reboots too quickly after
displaying the message.
If one telnets into the machine then one can telnet from this session
to anywhere one whishes to. Unluckily this still does not fix the 
reboot on dev/console when trying from there again. How about implem-
enting codrv or something.

netstart relies on localhost being specified by the nameserver but as
some machines have a different address than 127.0.0.1 some nameservers
just dont list localhost, which means all programs using localhost 
fail due to unknown host, and the resolver ignores etc/hosts .
maybe one should use resolve+.

I also can't find any support for DISKLESS machines, is there any ?