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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!nih-csl!postman From: crtb@helix.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon) Subject: ctrl-alt-del, swapon, and buildworld questions Message-ID: <1993Jul28.170441.22489@alw.nih.gov> Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster) Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1993 17:04:41 GMT Lines: 44 In article <1993Jul27.193247.29088@alw.nih.gov> crtb@helix.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon) writes: >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). > >Question 1: Has anyone seen this "status: 0" message every 36 seconds, > and can it be fixed? k202028@blitz.dkrz.de (Heiner Strauss) said he cured this by shutting down his printers. I didn't have any printer turned on. But why should there be any messages at all, unless something's wedged in a queue or something? >Question 2: Has anyone seen ctrl-alt-DEL fail to reboot after shutdown? nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) posted the answer: ctrl-alt-DEL isn't supposed to work in 386bsd! Only in DOS. >Question 3: Has anyone seen buildworld.sh fail, at about the point > I've indicated? scottl@engin.umich.edu (scott allen long) echoed question 3, and nate answered it this way: >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. I'd quibble about the fact that I've installed all the patches and afterinstall.sh, before I ran buildworld, but maybe those bugs didn't get fixed. One of the messages I get when I boot is "swapon: not enough memory" -- even though I've got swap spaces on both wd0 and wd1 (32 MB on wd1). To summarize: ctrl-alt-DEL is meaningless to any but DOS; "status: 0" messages may come from somewhere in the printer area; and buildworld.sh will fail owing to a bug in nroff. Thanks for the answers.. still more questions, but it's the answers which count! -- Chuck Bacon - crtb@helix.nih.gov ( alas, not my 3b1 )-: ABHOR SECRECY - DEFEND PRIVACY