From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 11 09:52:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA29557 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 09:52:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from csrlink.net (schroeder.csrlink.net [209.173.80.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA29455 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 09:51:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@techyman.ml.org) Received: from techyman.ml.org (rlynn.csrlink.net [206.228.95.43]) by csrlink.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA11210; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 12:50:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 12:50:30 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert J Lynn Jr (TeChYMaN)" To: MALCOLM BOFF cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Upgrade from 2.2.2-RELEASE to 2.2.6-RELEASE In-Reply-To: <199806110851_MC2-3FE3-198D@compuserve.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 F00F bug is a minor Pentium bug that ppl can crash yer puter with that insrtuction. it isnt used in regular programming tho, inly malicious users. - ----------------------------------------------------------------- Robert J. Lynn Jr. (TeChYMaN, TechyMan, rjlynn, TeChY) "What does rm -rf * do?" Owner/Operator Williamsport Computer Owner/Operator TeChYMaN's BSD Shells KidsWorld Sr. Helper On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, MALCOLM BOFF wrote: > Due to a problem that I was experiencing I felt obliged to do an UPGRADE > install from 2.2.2-RELEASE to 2.2.6-RELEASE and I have a couple of > problems. > > 1) The 'dmesg' output from the GENERIC kernel is below and you will notice > that it reports a Pentium F00F error - I was not aware that this was > possible > on a 233Mhz Pentium and it did not report this at 2.2.2 whats happening > here. > > 2) Issuing a 'startx' command with my existing /etc/X86Config now gives me > an error 'failed to set default font path '.....' followed by 'could not > open default > font 'fixed''. "The Complete FreeBSD" says that for the second of these > errors you should run 'mkfontdir' on all the font directories, however the > first > message implies that it cannot find the font path so the second error is > probably a follow on from the first. Why can't it set the default font path > ? All > the paths are present ! > > 'dmesg output from GENERIC kernel attached' > > Malcolm G. Boff > Sylmex Ltd. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP for Personal Privacy 5.0 Charset: noconv iQA/AwUBNYAK2g2MC48AN/7zEQJjYwCg11zfOvgO8F7AgbrpBCccHr7yN/QAoKrt Oz7reQpg3wEIy8g7tauQezRy =ZiIF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message