From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Mar 31 11:20:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA14202 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:20:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from jbrann.dialup.access.net (jbrann.dialup.access.net [166.84.193.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA14186 for ; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 11:20:08 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by jbrann.dialup.access.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA00302 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 31 Mar 1996 14:19:16 -0500 Message-Id: <199603311919.OAA00302@jbrann.dialup.access.net> Subject: 2.2-SNAP-960323 To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 14:19:15 -0500 (EST) From: John Brann Reply-To: John Brann Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL13 (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 So, I had this brain-fart. I've loaded the new SNAP onto my laptop and was re-building the kernel with the PCMCIA support, and I removed npx0. The strange thing was that it built, and loaded. When I rebooted, things went OK, until it tried to fsck my disks, at which point the boot process failed with a sig 8 (Floating point exception - big surprise). Attempts to spawn a single-user shell also failed, same reason. After rebooting with the old kernel, I discovered that /etc/services had been trashed - which was annoying, but I had a backup. I know that 'I can't rebuild my kernel and it says something about floating point' is probably the single-most-asked-about thing on the lists, but I would have thought that failing to build would be a better result than allowing a potentially damaging kernel to start... John -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key