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From: igor@alecto.physics.uiuc.edu (Igor Roshchin)
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Subject: Re: Stable kernels crashes on two machines. WAS: CVSUP woes for stable branch
To: mit@LITech.Lviv.UA (Bohdan Kmit')
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 12:40:15 -0500 (CDT)
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970929202155.12800B-100000@ah.litech.lviv.ua> from "Bohdan Kmit'" at Sep 29, 97 08:28:29 pm
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> 
> On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Igor Roshchin wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > I had this problem too on two boxes. Solution was simple --
> > > all lkm's recompilation. Look like interface beetwen kernel and lkm
> > > changed.
> > > 
> > > Hope this help.
> > > 
> > > With regards,
> > > 	Bohdan.
> > > 
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > >              Bohdan Kmit'               |  +380 (322) 742339
> > >  Laboratory of Information Technologies |
> > >             L'viv, Ukraine              |  mit@LITech.Lviv.UA
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > > 
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > Is that true ? What is the correct sequence than ?
> > 
> > I had about the same problem about two weeks ago
> > (did not have time to get back to it since) -
> > First: Installation from the the CD-ROM:
> > 2.2.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE #0: Tue May 20 10:45:24 GMT 1997     jkh@tim
> > e.cdrom.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC  i386
> > 
> > Then I took the source tree and cvsup-ed the changes.
> > 
> > Compiled kernel (generic one) did not want to boot
> > and every time was stuck at the message "starting network, hostname.."
> > (or something like that)
> > 
> > 
> > IgoR
> > 
> > 
> 
> To be more precise -- kernel panicing where screen saver module was
> loaded. You can boot is single user mode (-s), remount root filesystem in
> readwrite mode, edit /etc/rc.conf then reboot in multiuser.
> 
> Hope this help.
> 
> With regards,
> 	Bohdan.
> 

I don't think so, because I have
saver="NO"              # screen saver desired: blank/green/snake/star/NO.
in my /etc/rc.conf

IgoR