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 Message-ID: <Mutt.19970129095215.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970128170519.Shimon@i-Connect.Net>; from Simon Shapiro on Jan 28, 1997 15:34:33 -0800 References: <Mutt.19970128092153.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> <XFMail.970128170519.Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
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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. ;-)
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