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Date:      Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:46:58 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Jordan Hubbard <jkh@osd.bsdi.com>
Cc:        gallatin@cs.duke.edu, wkb@freebie.demon.nl, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Rawhide still broken on 4.3beta
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0103221146430.14443-100000@zeppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010322114157I.jkh@osd.bsdi.com>

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On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote:

> > I think that if it ever gets fixed, there will be a lot of rejoicing &
> > it will be hard to miss.  Like there was when the "going nowhere with
> > my init" problem was finally fixed.
> 
> Erm, just so this rumor doesn't spread too far, as the guy who "fixed"
> that problem let me just say right now that it was never fixed, it was
> simply papered over. :)
> 
> What now happens is that libdisk(3) simply whines rather than failing
> where it used to, and the things it failed over were pretty severe
> like allocations failing or very unexpected events.  This means that
> sysinstall on the alpha will see libdisk return now with data which
> isn't strictly guaranteed to be valid in some cases, such as the one
> which caused the "going nowhere" problem in the first place.  Whether
> this will constitute a real problem or not remains to be seen.  In the
> meantime, please keep an eye on your debugging screens (VTY2) and let
> me know if anything new and interesting shows up. :)

Cool. For a serial install, where's vty2?



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