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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!caen!uunet!newsgate.watson.ibm.com!news.ans.net!cmcl2!sbcs.sunysb.edu!sbcs!stark From: stark@cs.sunysb.edu (Gene Stark) Subject: Re: 386BSD and Floppies ARRRRRRRGGGGGGHHHHHHHH In-Reply-To: fish@ecst.csuchico.edu's message of 24 Nov 92 17: 56:35 GMT Message-ID: <STARK.92Nov24144524@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu> Sender: usenet@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Usenet poster) Nntp-Posting-Host: sbstark Organization: SUNY at Stony Brook Computer Science Dept. References: <83569@ut-emx.uucp> <wutcd.722083671@hadrian> <1etqcjINNour@charnel.ecst.csuchico.edu> Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1992 19:45:24 GMT Lines: 26 fish@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu (Kevin Haddock) writes: >I have had luck just recompiling most programs that give me problems >out of the binary distribution. I had this problem out of the box >with mtools and it was one that came around to recompiling. Many >others (like troff) dumped core but work fine now with a fresh recompile >from sources. Don't ask me why. These are the great mysteries! > >-Kevin >fish@cscihp.ecst.csuchico.edu A few months ago when I first started running 386BSD, I used "dump" to make a level 0 dump to floppies, which I then restored using "restore". When I was done, I noticed that one or two previously working binaries had become corrupted. I don't know what happened, or whether any of the patches to the system I applied since then have fixed the problem. The most recent time I did a dump and restore, I did not notice any errors. My suspicion about "mtools" and other similar broken things on the 0.1 distribution is that sometime just before the 0.1 release, the releasers did a dump and restore similar to what I did, and some of the files got corrupted as a result. Has anyone noticed any funny business like this after applying Terry's patchkit, or are we all safe now? - Gene Stark