From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 30 13:25:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA23700 for current-outgoing; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 13:25:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA23616; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 13:25:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA03713; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 16:25:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199801302125.QAA03713@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Current and X11R6 3.3 get Signal 11 abort In-Reply-To: from Ade Lovett at "Jan 30, 98 07:44:27 am" To: ade@demon.net Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 16:25:22 -0500 (EST) Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe current" Ade Lovett said: > "John S. Dyson" writes: > > > >Good!!! It is wise to be prepared to back-off to the latest "stable" -current, > >when breakage like I have likely caused, happens!!! > > Thing is, though. After your suggested boot-time tweak to set > vfs.ioopt to 0, I've had no problems with random SIGBUS's, to the > extent that I've completely rebuilt a couple of machines (a 96Mb K6/200 > and a 128Mb dual-P133) from scratch, including X11 and all the other > ports that I use. > > I notice that recent -current's (I'm using 980127 here) seem to set > vfs.ioopt to 0 by themselves (negating the need for the sysctl in /etc/rc) > Is this just a kludge to revert back to old (unbroken?) behavior > (the previous problematic value was 2)? > Yes. I still am having problems figuring out the trouble. Right now, I am busy working on things specifically for work. (We are using another OS at work also, and it is giving us fits...) -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig.