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From: crtb@helix.nih.gov (Chuck Bacon)
Subject: FreeBSD multiple problems
Message-ID: <1993Nov20.224542.8926@alw.nih.gov>
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Organization: National Institutes of Health, Bethesda
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1993 22:45:42 GMT
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Unrelated symptoms in areas where others are having no problems suggest
to me that maybe I've done something stupid.  Here are some symptoms:

1. uname is run by /etc/rc, and seg faults.  It seg faults if I run it
   manually also, no matter what args.

2. XF86_SVGA won't stay up no matter what I put in Xconfig.  Some times
   it won't get past its (**) reports, and only once have I been able to
   see it report (--) the clocks.  I understand the 8 clock numbers I'm
   supposed to feed it.  I've got a no-named SVGA with CL-GD 5422 chip,
   and a NEC 3FGx mon., so I can only run 800x600 apparently.

3. SLIP connections fail miserably, to a Cisco terminal server doing
   "ip unnumbered" meaning the FreeBSD's IP address is on the same
   subnet as the Cisco box itself.  I can telnet some places and not
   others, and ping never works.  If I telnet to a host and ping back,
   the line freezes and never comes loose.  V.32bis/V.42bis modem at 19.2.

Each of these symptoms looks a bit like minor misconfiguration, but
each has resisted every twiddle I could think of.  I don't really want
to post my kernel's config (FreeBSD-1.0-RELEASE), my Xconfig (SVGA,
pretty standard) or the specific slattach, ifconfig and route commands,
but I will if anyone thinks they may have an idea on how I got so
crippled!  HELP!

Chuck Bacon - crtb@helix.nih.gov
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