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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!usenet.coe.montana.edu!bsd.coe.montana.edu!nate From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: buildworld.sh hangs GENERICISA Date: 27 Jul 1993 21:35:29 GMT Organization: Montana State University Lines: 35 Message-ID: <234731$p9j@pdq.coe.montana.edu> References: <1993Jul27.193247.29088@alw.nih.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: bsd.coe.montana.edu In article <1993Jul27.193247.29088@alw.nih.gov> crtb@helix.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon) writes: > >I find with the new kernel, also with GENERICISA, that after a >shutdown, ctrl-alt-DEL doesn't work! I have to hit reset. What are you doing, shutting down and rebooting, or shutting down to single user, or what? 'shutdown ...' w/out any parameters goes to single user 'shutdown -h ' shuts down all the way, no reboot 'shutdown -r ' shuts down and reboots the box. <Ctrl><Alt><Del> Should have never worked on 386BSD, since this is not DOS, and if you want to shutdown the machine use either shutdown, reboot or halt. >Finally, running buildworld.sh, it hangs (either kernel running) on a >line which says "nroff -mandoc /usr/src/(I forget)/intro.2 > intro.0" >After just about 2.5 hours. (3 tries with same result). Sounds like not enough swap. Nroff as supplied with 0.1 has a bad bug in it due to a bad bug in g++1.3* that causes it to suck memory like it's going out of style. Get either the new NetBSD release or FreeBSD release (RSN) and things will work much nicer. Nate -- nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu | In the middle of it ........ again. nate@cs.montana.edu | Running/supporting one of many freely available work #: (406) 994-4836 | Operating Systems for [34]86 machines. home #: (406) 586-0579 | (based on Net/2, name changes all the time :-)