From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 29 01:21:01 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA21180 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 01:21:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id BAA21175 for ; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 01:20:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA22267; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 10:20:46 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.4/8.6.9) id JAA19946; Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:52:15 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 09:52:15 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: Shimon@i-Connect.Net (Simon Shapiro) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.2-BETA Questions References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55-PL10 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: ; from Simon Shapiro on Jan 28, 1997 15:34:33 -0800 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Simon Shapiro wrote: > > 2.1.6 is the latest release. > > 2.2 is the next release, currently in post-BETA. > > 3.0 is the head of the development (``3.0-current'') > > Thanx. Iam now doubly aware of these intricacies. I am also of > the understanding that all three are actively maintained. How do No, 2.1.6 is a release (so it's a fixed mark, vs. a branch that is ongoing work), and the 2.1.x branch is considered dead. We had to concentrate on something. > bug fixes cross the lines? Ah. something to learn... Bug fixes are being merged from -current into the 2.2 branch. > > You could hook a few printf's into /sys/scsi/cd.c (inside cd_open()) > > to see which of the ENXIO's hits. Either the drive claims there's no > > medium inside, or it fails a READ CAPACITY command. > > This sounds like debugging to me... ;-) Who is the maintainer? I think Søren Schmidt. However, there are too many weird ATAPI drives around, so you're the best person to help here. > > > a. When init goes to single user, prompts, asking for a shell. > > > You press ENTER and it sits on ``(.???msg - Cannot exactly > > > remember) not found'' > > David Greenman has been the only one by now who also reported such a > > behaviour. > > So now there is a confirmation... The confirmation isn't the biggest problem, but rather _finding_ it. :) > > Well, that's what the `-a' means: umount everything in fstab. > > Ah. BSD vs. SYSV. Sorry. But ``wolud be nice'' if shutdown would > really shut down the system, and correctly too. Even Linux > (Debian) now knows to do that, finally. shutdown -h now -- 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. ;-)