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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 16:19:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: Dan Langille <junkmale@xtra.co.nz>
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Subject: Re: changes to file are lost
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On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Dan Langille wrote:

> I think I am imagining things.
> 
> I made changes to /etc/resolv.conf last night.  Tonight, after a reboot, 
> the file seems to have reset itself to what it was yesterday.  Mind you, 
> that reboot was from a panic.  Would that account for the recent changes 
> being undone?

1.  Forgot to save it?
2.  Running dhcp?

> BTW: The reboot was caused by mounting fd0 without a disk in the drive.  
> The system went into panic reboot mode.  UGLY.  From the mailing list 
> archive, I see that this "Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in 
> kernel mode" error is not unknown.  Apart from watching what I'm doing, is 
> there any solution to that situation?

Don't take the disks out until you've unmounted them. :)

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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