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From: nickel@prz.tu-berlin.de (Juergen Nickelsen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: FreeBSD 2.0-Release problems and praise
Date: 26 Jan 1995 23:38:02 GMT
Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany
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Last weekend I installed FreeBSD 2.0 Release from the Walnut Creek CD.
I am quite impressed by the easy installation procedure. I screwed
some things up in the first try, though, but probably because I was
trying to be too smart.
Now I have a working system with all necessary stuff installed. I like
it a lot, mainly because the file system throughput is *three times*
faster than under 1.1.5.1 (on a Quantum Linghtning 730; 500 - 600 KB/s
vs. 1.7 - 1.8 MB/s now).
Some problems still remain that I haven't seen mentioned here yet:
- 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.)
- Some programs crash the system reliably, such as the "screen"
binary from the CD. There are some other programs I don't recall
at the moment. (I retrieved screen-3.6.1 in source from some other
place; the compiled program hangs when run as a user and crashes
with signal 11 when run as `root'. I haven't debugged it yet.)
- The systems seems a little fragile in other respects, too. Sudden
crashes are moderately common. I didn't investigate them further
yet.
- When returning from X, the cursor is gone. (OK, the HGC-1280 is
strange for sure, but this did not happen with 1.1.5.1.)
I'd like to see a list of the reported and of the already analyzed
bugs so I can see which ones I should have a closer look at.
I copied the kermit binary from the other disk with the 1.1.5.1
installation, and it works fine. Only it isn't able to create the lock
file *although* it is setgid dialer (and thus should have write
permissions to /var/locks (sp?)). Does it do a setgid(getgid())
*before* it tries to create the lock file? When run by root, kermit
does fine.
My configuration:
Intel 486DX33, ISA board with Opti (or Omti?) chipset,
AMI BIOS (c) 1992
8 MB RAM
Adaptec 1542A
Quantum Lightning 730 on SCSI ID 0, one week old,
whole disk for FreeBSD 2.0, 20 MB /, 64 MB swap, rest /usr
Fujitsu M2???X (173 MB) SCSI ID 1, about 5 or 6 years old,
containing a FreeBSD 1.1.5.1 installation
(at the moment) borrowed Apple CD-150 CDROM drive on SCSI ID 4
5.25" floppy as fd0
3.5" floppy as fd1
no-name card with 2 16540 compatible sios
Hyundai HGC-1280 monochrome card (works fine with X, but slow)
cheapo AT keyboard once manufactured for Goupil, french(!) layout
slightly modified by changing keycaps (very bad keyboard, that is)
The machine is at home and I'm posting from work now, so I don't
remember all details now.
Thanks to all who made this impressing piece of software possible!
--
Juergen Nickelsen