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From: storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: NetBSD finally gives out
Date: 24 Oct 1993 22:35:58 GMT
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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Message-ID: <2af00e$9kj@homer.cs.mcgill.ca>
NNTP-Posting-Host: mnementh.cs.mcgill.ca



Sigh.

	After three months of nearly flawless running (only two
	unexplained crashes in that time), NetBSD finally blew up on
	me last night.

	I had paused a compile of XFree86, and started to edit a text file
	with my text editor, while reading news in a cu session in
	another window (it's remarkable how many things you can do
	with a windowing system :-)), when all of a sudden, I noticed
	that no more processes would start, and then....

	Lock-up.

	No choice but to hit rest.  Upon rebotting, 

	panic: init died

	Booting up the install floppies, and running fsck -y produced
	an amusing 10+ screenfulls of problems, and subsequent invocations
	couldn't get it fixed.

	After nearly two hours of trying to trick the machine into working,
	I had to give up and re-install....

	Thankfully, I had copied most of the important stuff over to
	another disk...

	It is interesting to note that all the similar crashes and
	problems I had when running 386bsd 0.1 all occurred under
	the same curcumstances---I had recently paused a compile
	of some large package.


						Starting Over,

						Marc 'em.
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