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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!darwin.sura.net!math.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!TAMUTS.TAMU.EDU!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!mcrcim.mcgill.edu!sifon!homer.cs.mcgill.ca!storm 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 Lines: 44 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. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Wandschneider Seattle, WA Barney the Dinoaur sings! You faint... Barney sings! Barney sings! --More-- You Die... --More--