From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 11 03:01:27 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA00893 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 11 Mar 1995 03:01:27 -0800 Received: from ldjpc.apana.org.au (ldjpc.apana.org.au [192.203.213.254]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA00830 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 1995 03:00:26 -0800 Received: (from jj@localhost) by ldjpc (8.6.9/8.6.9) id XAA00239; Fri, 10 Mar 1995 23:20:25 +0930 Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 23:20:25 +0930 (CST) From: Lucas James To: David Greenman cc: Amancio Hasty Jr , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SNAP or current? In-Reply-To: <199503100801.AAA04134@corbin.Root.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 10 Mar 1995, David Greenman wrote: > >> Umm, I wouldn't count on the next SNAP being too stable. I have a dozen > >>serious bugs (panics or system hangs) on the whiteboard, and I don't expect > >Care to elaborate ? > >Mostly because I am not seeing any panics over here (cross my fingers) and > >perhaps they could be due to a driver or option configured in the kernel. > The above is just a sample and doesn't include what I consider the most > serious of the bugs - the wild pointer that randomly corrupts kernel memory. > If I could reproduce that problem at will, I'd have it fixed by now. > Unfortunately, it happens about 1 in 100 times I boot the machine, just after > fsck finishes...or at random other times during normal system use. If you're > lucky, it will just cause the machine to die. If you're unlucky like John, it > will corrupt some FS buffers and destroy your superblock and root directory. Ah... so that's what happened on Tues... (It deleted the directory /sbin (and left a lot of unrefed files.... :( I've been trying to get my machine back up and running ever since :( > Don't get to comfortable with -current...and do regular backups. :-( What's a backup? <*grin*> Lucas James jj@ldjpc.apana.org.au