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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!netnews.nwnet.net!news.clark.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!gomel.knirsch.de!knobel.knirsch.de!knobel.knirsch.de!andreas From: andreas@knobel.knirsch.de (Andreas Klemm) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Major problems with FreeBSD-1.1 Date: 9 Jun 1994 20:02:54 GMT Organization: @ $HOME, 41469 Neuss, Germany Lines: 60 Message-ID: <2t7si0$6k@knobel.knirsch.de> References: <2t37es$h6j$1@perth.dialix.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: knobel.knirsch.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Datacraft Technology (datacrft@perth.DIALix.oz.au) wrote: : I found three major problems with FreeBSD-1.1-Release: I and certainly many other people had none of these problems ... I think otherwise many people had done a followup. : 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. I think the filesystem itself is ok. I build X11R5 from scratch with the XFree86-2.1.1 diffs applied and everything runs ok. : 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? What shell do you use ? I heard tcsh may cause funny things ?! When I tried to compile tcsh I succeeded to create a runnable binary, but every time when I started a program like vi or more, the process was immediately suspended, as if I had hit Control-Z to stop the job. Perhaps similar things happen to you ?! BTW: What Hardware do you have in detail ?! : 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!?!?!? :( Perhaps job control ?! : How did I get my old kermit (which I assumed to be dead) back on : a brand new xterm session. Good question ... the next time, if a session vanishesm then do a job -l to look for stopped jobs ... Best regards Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm /\/\____ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH andreas@knobel.knirsch.de ___/\/\/ andreas@wupmon.wup.de (Unix Support)