From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 29 2:32: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A74337BBA2 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 02:32:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (doconnor@cain [203.38.152.97]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA00867; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:01:40 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000329121631.A10614@cons.org> Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:01:40 +0930 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: Martin Cracauer Subject: Re: Let 3.x die ASAP? Cc: "Forrest W. Christian" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Didier Derny Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 29-Mar-00 Martin Cracauer wrote: > > I had a quick look through the PR database and couldn't see your name... > > Perhaps if you report your problems people will be able to fix them. > Isn't that a bit hard? If the crashes Didier had are anything like my > ide panics or unknown hard hangs I have, it is too hard for a normal > user to collect the data that a useful kernel PR requires. Well, maybe so, but if its happening every 2 or 3 weeks, I would think he could at least create a PR, or ask for information about getting the information needed. If your machine IS crashing then you need to be proactive, and try and find what is causing the problem. Try and write down stuff about the crash if you can't get a dump etc.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message