Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 14:19:15 -0500 (EST) From: John Brann <jbrann@panix.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: 2.2-SNAP-960323 Message-ID: <199603311919.OAA00302@jbrann.dialup.access.net>
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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
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