From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 28 20:31:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA20627 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 20:31:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA20622 for ; Mon, 28 Apr 1997 20:31:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id NAA19263; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 13:00:51 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199704290330.NAA19263@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: A Desparate Plea for Help... In-Reply-To: from Simon Shapiro at "Apr 28, 97 06:44:43 pm" To: Shimon@i-Connect.Net (Simon Shapiro) Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 13:00:51 +0930 (CST) Cc: julian@whistle.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Simon Shapiro stands accused of saying: > > BTW, I have disabled ALL LKM's in the system and it appears to hold > together! Ok, we're close now. > As I said, we had Linux emulation (which is not being used), the > non-X screen saver (which appears to be fine (used to crash > somewhere in pre-stable 2.2), and OSS which appears to be working. It would be very good to determine which one it is. If it's the OSS module, I'm sure they'd love to hear about it so that we/they can _fix_ it. If it's either of the others, we'd like to know too! > Now, which one is the culprit? Dunno, but would put my money (on > top of the $20.00/binary I already did - was curious), on OSS. I am not so sure, and I would suggest not slagging it until you're ready to send a bug report 8) > On a more serious note; i would like, very much to identify the > culprit, on the chance that the bug is elsewhere and can pop up > again, somewhere on a mountain top, taking some 50,000 customers out > of service. If you can spare a little time somewhen to pursue this, it would be _very_ greatly appreciated. If I can ever get to your FTP site, it would be helpful to know in which order you load your LKMs. > Simon -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[