Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 02:01:39 -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: Re: Possible bug in 4.5-RC1 vs VMware (linux emulation?) Message-ID: <p05101213b86ec9d2d448@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <p0510100ab8647c8ea49e@[128.113.24.47]> References: <p0510100ab8647c8ea49e@[128.113.24.47]>
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On Jan 11/2002 (a week ago), Garance A Drosihn wrote: >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. For what it's worth, today I did another buildworld, and I seemed to still have the error (but I only did one test). I then upgraded all of my ports, and the error with the CD-ROM vs Vmware has gone away. So, whatever the problem was, I think it has been fixed now. -- 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
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