From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Nov 17 16:45:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from kuku.excite.com (kuku-rwcmta.excite.com [198.3.99.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ED7B37B479 for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:45:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from ally.excite.com ([199.172.148.156]) by kuku.excite.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.39 201-229-119-122) with ESMTP id <20001118004527.BWTI19851.kuku.excite.com@ally.excite.com> for ; Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:45:27 -0800 Message-ID: <4513306.974508327123.JavaMail.imail@ally.excite.com> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:45:27 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Bano To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Shell or FreeBSD bug? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Excite Inbox X-Sender-Ip: 64.210.24.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 _______________________________________________________ Tired of slow Internet? Get @Home Broadband Internet http://www.home.com/xinbox/signup.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message