Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 06:41:35 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Subject: Possible bug in 4.5-RC1 vs VMware (linux emulation?) Message-ID: <p0510100ab8647c8ea49e@[128.113.24.47]>
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Here's one of those bug reports everyone (including me) loves to hate.
A little short on specifics, but I can't check into it further at the
moment, so I wanted to mention it before I forgot.
I upgraded to 4.5-RC1 as it was on Wednesday (Jan 9th) at about 7pm.
I then upgraded most (but not quite all) of my ports. On Thursday
I needed to run VMware2 to debug some obscure problem I am seeing
elsewhere (something not related to freebsd at all).
The possible-bug part is that I get an error message when starting
up vmware, saying "VMware was unable to read from /dev/acd0c. This
can be caused by a Linux kernel bug...". It is saying "Linux kernel"
because this is the Linux version of VMware2, which I am running via
Linux emulation on freebsd. So, it thinks the host OS is linux. In
any case, I wasn't getting this error until after those upgrades.
All my ports are updated except for:
cvsup gdk-pixbuf glib gtk lcms mozilla and stunnel
so I don't *think* any of those would be the problem.
So, if someone else has a VMware2 setup on 4.5-RC1, please give it
a run and see if you get a similar error. [I don't need the CD
drive for what I'm debugging with VMware, so it isn't really a
problem for me at the moment]
--
Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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