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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!wraith.internode.com.au!tipellium.apanix.apana.org.au!usenet From: miff@apanix.apana.org.au (Michael Smith) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: [2.0 packages] Wy won't they install? Date: 24 Jan 1995 21:59:39 GMT Organization: Apanix Public Access Unix, +61 8 373 5485 (5 lines) Lines: 46 Message-ID: <3g3t8b$90u@tipellium.apana.org.au> References: <3fkurl$t1d@tipellium.apana.org.au> <3fkvd7$t5p@tipellium.apana.org.au> <3fl1os$1sb@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: seldon.apanix.apana.org.au Keywords: FreeBSD packages install CDROM jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: >That package is a little broken. I'd like to say that all the 2.0R packages >worked, but they didn't. That's qool - the package as a whole is very impressive regardless. >Do you know for a fact that the portal code is broken? >The author who's talk I just attended here seems to feel otherwise! :-) *gah* Let me guess, it's the union and log filesystems that the README warns you about? memory... > Jordan Speaking of memory, here's one I don't really expect an answer to, but if any of the kernel people can comment, I'd be interested to hear on : I put together a small (386dx25/4M) FreeBSD 2.0 system as a gateway last night. It has some serious memory problems, but I managed to nurse it through to the end of the binary install, and left it running (because the disk in it suffers from stiction). When I got up this morning, it was sitting there rebooting, fscking, dying during the fsck (a couple of different problems, either 'bdev missing' or a page fault in kernel mode, both memory problems I presume 8). Anyway, I resigned to getting a new motherboard, and sat down to read my mail and move some stuff around on another machine. While this was in full swing, the cripple came up, and while it was booting, the system I was using froze, and then rebooted (no dump, no console errors that I saw, nada). Needless to say, I lost lots 8) Anyway; my suspicion is that the cripple emitted a seriously bogus ethernet packet, and killed the kernel on the other machine... As I am planning on doing some serious ethernet development work in the coming months, I'm a little concerned : how robust is the FreeBSD/4.4 kernel when it comes to packets with sharp corners? Any comments of interest... -- # mike smith : miff@apanix.apana.org.au - Silicon grease monkey # # "The question 'why are the fundamental laws of nature mathematical' # # then invites the trivial response 'because we define as fundamental # # those laws which are mathematical'". Paul Davies, _The_Mind_of_God_. #