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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!sleipnir.iaccess.com.au!news.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!chippy.visi.com!news-out.visi.com!mr.net!data.ramona.vix.com!nnrp1.crl.com!not-for-mail From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Has 2.2.1 been a bit rushed out the door? Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 03:22:36 -0700 Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM Lines: 29 Message-ID: <33671D6C.FF6D5DF@FreeBSD.org> References: <tporczyk.862358549@shell3.ba.best.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: time.cdrom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) To: Tony Porczyk <tporczyk@shell3.ba.best.com> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40091 Tony Porczyk wrote: > all, then it installed but without X (the sysinstall utility has some > bizarre quirks, repeating menus, etc). Then I had "internal compiler > errors", now I cannot add X to the system. The Makefile specifies Well, as you subsequently reported, the mysterious crashes suddenly went away - I don't know what to think. At the minimum, I can certainly say that many a successful installation of both 2.2.1 and the full X suite has been accomplished by now and if you're having this degree of dysfunction, it's very unusual. Trust me, if something as basic as installing the X distribution(s) or even getting the bits onto the disk wasn't working at least the great majority of the time, 2.2.1 would not have been released at all (or it would have been "recalled"). Your signal 6's in sysinstall are also very weird - no one else has reported that particular trap at all. I have seen commonality in many of the other 2.2.1 failure reports (and there *are* ways to bollix it up, I'm not saying it's perfect by far) but yours are fairly unique. I'm starting to suspect your hardware. :( And yes, I'm also willing to believe that it previously ran 2.x.x flawlessly, but I'd still wonder if it ran it flawlessly _lately_. ;-) -- - Jordan Hubbard FreeBSD core team / Walnut Creek CDROM.