From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 11 3:41:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BFF337B400 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 03:41:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0BBfaX61862; Fri, 11 Jan 2002 06:41:36 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 06:41:35 -0500 To: stable@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Possible bug in 4.5-RC1 vs VMware (linux emulation?) Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , Dag-Erling Smorgrav Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message