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From: erich@cs.pdx.edu (Erich S. Boleyn)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0-Release problems and praise
Date: 31 Jan 1995 19:36:19 -0800
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jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes:

>In article <NICKEL.95Jan27003802@toftum.prz.tu-berlin.de>,
>Juergen Nickelsen <nickel@cs.tu-berlin.de> wrote:
>>  - When compiling the kernel, I get spurious compile errors due to a
>>    character 0377 which seems to pop up at *different* places in
>>    vnode_if.h -- another "make" fixes the problem for the moment, and
>>    several other files get compiled, but then it is back again, at a
>>    different place in vnode_if.h, but only *very* rarely in some
>>    other file. (This one puzzles me in particular.)

>This is bad.  It indicates that you're having some sort of cache
>problem, or something is flakey with your hardware.  You should not see this
>kind of thing, needless to say!

I saw something like this happen to me on an earlier version, and it was
due to having a bus-master SCSI card in a slave slot (definitely
caching problems, since when I turned off my cache, it went
away, and placing it in the bus-master slot solved all the problems).

>>  - Some programs crash the system reliably, such as the "screen"
>>    binary from the CD. There are some other programs I don't recall

>screen is known to be broken.  Not sure if it's fixed just yet, but
>we'll look into it.

"screen" compiled and installed normally core dumps or hangs.  If you
remove the setuid root, then it appears to work normally.

Erich

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