Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2000 21:43:27 -0500 (EST) From: "Mark W. Krentel" <krentel@dreamscape.com> To: michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux emulation Message-ID: <200011050243.VAA34351@dreamscape.com>
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Michel Talon wrote: > I have encountered today some fairly critical bugs in the Linux emulation. > This is on a 4.1-RELEASE box, i mention these problems in case they have not > been seen or corrected before 4.2-RELEASE ... > After that, > i tried to mv /usr/compat/linux to another place and link my true /linux > partition to /usr/compat/linux. These seemed to work, but as soon as i tried > to remove the old /usr/compat/linux, the machine rebooted. Your /linux is an ext2fs partition? Running linux binaries on an ext2fs partition can produce panics, see PR kern/19407. Bruce Evans found and fixed some buffer overrun problems in Freebsd's ext2fs code, and his patches have been MFC'd into 4.x. Try upgrading to 4.2 and see if that fixes the problem. --Mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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