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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!paladin.american.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!spool.mu.edu!news.clark.edu!sun.lclark.edu!news.reed.edu!usenet.ee.pdx.edu!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 36 Message-ID: <3gmvjj$50c@penchiss10.ee.pdx.edu> References: <NICKEL.95Jan27003802@toftum.prz.tu-berlin.de> <3ga32e$bvl@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: penchiss10.ee.pdx.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #1 (NOV) 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 -- Erich Stefan Boleyn \__ E-mail (preferred): <erich@uruk.org> WWW site: "http://www.uruk.org/" \__ home #: +1 (503) 226-0741 Mad Genius wanna-be, CyberMuffin \_ phys loc: 924 S.W. 16th Ave, #202 Motto: "I'll live forever or die trying" \ Portland, OR, USA 97205