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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!pacbell.com!well!barrnet.net!agate!library.ucla.edu!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gatech!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!jussieu.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!swidir.switch.ch!newsfeed.ACO.net!Austria.EU.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!gomel.knirsch.de!knobel.knirsch.de!andreas From: andreas@knobel.knirsch.de (Andreas Klemm) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: FreeBSD 1.1.5 crash bugs... Date: 16 Aug 1994 10:14:48 GMT Organization: HOME, 41469 Neuss, Germany Lines: 41 Message-ID: <32q3io$c2@knobel.knirsch.de> References: <CuL5p9.3x3@agora.rdrop.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: knobel.knirsch.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Erich Boleyn (erich@uruk.org) wrote: : 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. How did you do the upgrade. As far as I know you have to upgrade: - the /usr/src/sys - tree (of course ;-) - the config program (!) - and possibly other include files in /usr/include (don't know exactly, if the kernel needs other include files, too, or only the files from the /sys tree, perhaps somebody else knows this exactly) : 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. Perhaps try to read "raw" data from the tape using `dd'. The tape has to do a read access then.... : 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. Without ftape support (since I have a SCSI tape) everything works ok. BTW ... did you perhaps "fine tune" something or do you use the GENERIC kernel with the ftape extension ?! Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm /\/\____ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH andreas@knobel.knirsch.de ___/\/\/ andreas@wupmon.wup.de (Unix Support)