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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!peernews.demon.co.uk!demon!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!awfulhak.demon.co.uk!not-for-mail From: brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk (Brian Somers) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.0-Release problems and praise Date: 4 Feb 1995 02:08:14 -0000 Organization: None Lines: 49 Message-ID: <3gunie$3fg@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> References: <NICKEL.95Jan27003802@toftum.prz.tu-berlin.de> <3ga32e$bvl@agate.berkeley.edu> <3gmvjj$50c@penchiss10.ee.pdx.edu> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Erich S. Boleyn (erich@cs.pdx.edu) wrote: : 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). Hmmm, I've had _LOTS_ of problems with my GUS card - this uses a DMA which implies bus-mastering (yes ?). The sorts of things that happen are DOOM producing stupid sounds (crackly & echoing badly) and slowing down network play, and FreeBSD-2.0 throwing a complete wobbler and spontaneously re-booting. Might this be a non-busmastering slot problem ? It's a standard ISA bus (no VESA).... please answer this if it's a possibility... anyone. : >> - 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. Anyone have problems with pppd ? It _usually_ causes a kernel trap 12 on my machine after a while, but the IP is always the same... I'm compiling DDB into the kernel at the moment, but would appreciate any other problem reports in this area. Any help/advice appreciated. -- Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....