From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Nov 25 12:22:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA06126 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:22:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA06109 for ; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:22:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA24896; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 21:22:00 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA21712; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 21:21:59 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id VAA18142; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 21:14:37 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611252014.VAA18142@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: A simple way to crash your system. To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 21:14:37 +0100 (MET) Cc: kjk1@ukc.ac.uk (K.J.Koster) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: from "K.J.Koster" at "Nov 25, 96 01:19:17 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (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 As K.J.Koster wrote: > Altough I am speculating here, I think this has to do with the fact that > I do not have msdosfs compiled in with the kernel. After installing a > different kernel, I asked the system to modload msdosfs, with the above > result. Running a kernel with the wrong LKMs is known to cause you grey hairs. I'm often falling into this trap, but the other way around: by rebooting a new kernel without rebuilding and reinstalling the LKMs first. It's simply a ``Don't do this.'' -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)