Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 23:20:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu> To: Matt Rosenberg <matt@server.wulaw.wustl.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrade 2.1.0 -> 2.1.5 Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960723231819.494E-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <31F5B34D.3EC1@www.wulaw.wustl.edu>
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On Wed, 24 Jul 1996, Matt Rosenberg wrote: > Never saw it again after the first 2.1.5 boot except when starting X. OK there. X may just need a recompile. I think I remember seeing it in some of my logs but I don't check those regularly. > Apparently the root .xsession file was altered and it was looking for > fvwm. I switched back to twm and it works again. I guess the upgrade > installation did that. I don't know why or for that matter how else it > could have happened. Hm. I don't login as root on X at all, but I did that today and was treated to a nice-looking login! Must have been added by the install then. Hm. > > > > 3) On the nightly tape backup the cron daemon let me know that many of > > > the devices were not dumped, because the minor number was "too high". > > That is odd. > > Still happening every night even with the new kernel installed. Don't have a clue. Hope someone can help out here. > That was the problem. sio2 works fine now. However, when I dialup and > login as a slip user the system begins to display /etc/motd and then > drops carrier before that is even done (about 1 to 2 seconds). It may > have nothing to do with 2.1.5 upgrade because I wasn't running as a SLIP > server before the upgrade. This is probably a wrong path or something on your part; it dies & hangs up when the user is logged off because of a problem with the login shell scripts. Check .login and slip configs and try again. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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