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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.uwa.edu.au!DIALix!not-for-mail From: datacrft@perth.DIALix.oz.au (Datacraft Technology) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Major problems with FreeBSD-1.1 Date: 8 Jun 1994 09:38:36 +0800 Organization: DIALix Services, Perth, Western Australia Lines: 42 Sender: datacrft@perth.DIALix.oz.au Message-ID: <2t37es$h6j$1@perth.dialix.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: perth.dialix.oz.au Summary: Major problems with FreeBSD-1.1 X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #5 (NOV) I found three major problems with FreeBSD-1.1-Release: 1) When I extracted Xfree86-2.1 from the gzipped tar files, some directories haven't been created/disappeared without warning or error message. After issuing the same command again to extract Xfree all worked fine and I got X running without any problems. If this is a problem with the filesystem then I'm getting SCARED. 2) I had X up and running (started with xinit) using twm. In one window I received a large file via zmodem. In a second window I just did a "make depend" after I reconfigured the kernel. I a third window I was typing "ls" and got no echo back. From this point on no keyboard input was possible. The system was happy otherwise. I was able to use mouse and twm's menu. Also "make depend" run to completion and the zmodem receive also finished and I was back at the kermit prompt. At this time I used the twm menu to shut X down and got my keyboard back. WHAT happened to my keyboard? 3) Next I used xinit to fire up X, used twm to start an xterm, xterm comes up with the normal shell prompt. NOW I hit return and I'm back at my original kermit session which I used for my zmodem transfer!?!?!? :( How did I get my old kermit (which I assumed to be dead) back on a brand new xterm session. Previously I used NetBSD-0.9 and had none of these problems. On the other hand NetBSD-0.9 had lockup problems with IDE harddisks, problems with the NE2000 driver. It also had no shared libraries and nobody seems to respond to any bug reports you submit. Also the NetBSD team is not interested in releasing any new version before the next century. Please respond by email if possible. Regards Tibor Sashegyi