Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:45:27 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Bano <esteban0@excite.com> To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Shell or FreeBSD bug? Message-ID: <4513306.974508327123.JavaMail.imail@ally.excite.com>
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Hello,
I'm wondering if anybody might know the cause of a strange
problem I just observed.
I was editing a file with vi, saved my changes, and exited
to the shell (GNU bash, version 2.04.0(1)-release (i386--freebsd4.1)).
As I was about to type another command, the terminal froze for
a few seconds, then emitted this:
...dev1usrIvarstandIetc Icdrom
proc
Idistbin1bootO1mnt&JmodulesErootP1sbinJtmpK
sys
kernel.oldkernelL COPYRIGHT .GENERIC O
P . 1 .
after this, the shell was still functional, except that
the terminal character set mappings were messed up,
similar to the effect when you cat a binary file by
accident.
Here's the output from uname -a on my system:
FreeBSD my.freebsd.box 4.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE #0: Wed Nov 1 17:38:08
UTC 2000 root@my.freebsd.box:/usr/src/sys/compile/MYBOX i386
Anybody know what might be the cause of this? Do the messages look
familiar? The message seems to indicate a CD-ROM issue, and since
the machine is remotely located, it's conceivable someone might have
inserted/removed or otherwise manipulated the CD. But why would that cause
the above?
Thanks for any insight.
-Steve
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