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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!hookup!yeshua.marcam.com!usc!nic-nac.CSU.net!charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu!psgrain!agora!uruk.org!erich From: erich@uruk.org (Erich Boleyn) Subject: FreeBSD 1.1.5 crash bugs... Nntp-Posting-Host: faustus.dev.com Sender: news@agora.rdrop.com (USENET News) Organization: RainDrop Laboratories Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 16:55:55 GMT X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Message-ID: <CuL5p9.3x3@agora.rdrop.com> Lines: 31 Hello all. Well, it finally happened. I had opened my big mouth and said "I've never had a FreeBSD kernel crash", then I had 2 in the last week! I just (3 weeks ago) upgraded the kernel to 1.1.5 on an Internet gateway where I work, from 1.0.2. The first is reproducable very easily. I put in support for the Floppy tape drive (a Colorado, they are all the same mechanism, so I understand). If you try to create a tar archive on the tape using "tar -cf /dev/ft0 <filename>", it causes a kernel panic, then reboots. I haven't tried reading, since I haven't been able to create a tape. The other was apparently random, it just froze last friday, and was that way all weekend. It just booted up again fine this morning. Call me overcautious, but I removed floppy tape support from the kernel until I have a better handle on what's going on. Thanks! Erich -- Erich Stefan Boleyn \ Mad Genius wanna-be, CyberMuffin Mathematician, Software Engineer \ slavering computer nerd Internet E-mail: <erich@uruk.org> \ "Forget Artificial Intelligence, Motto: "I'll live forever or die trying" \ I want the real thing!"