From owner-freebsd-qa Wed Jul 26 12:15: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from funnel.cisco.com (funnel.cisco.com [161.44.131.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FB8437BDC6; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 12:15:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmcgover@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com) Received: from bmcgover-pc.cisco.com (bmcgover-pc.cisco.com [161.44.133.25]) by funnel.cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.1/8.6.5) with ESMTP id PAA27304; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:15:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: from bmcgover-pc.cisco.com (localhost.cisco.com [127.0.0.1]) by bmcgover-pc.cisco.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA30497; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:15:02 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from bmcgover@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com) Message-Id: <200007261915.PAA30497@bmcgover-pc.cisco.com> To: Robert Watson Cc: freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RC 3 issues... In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:19:16 EDT." Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:15:02 -0400 From: Brian McGovern Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Really. So its a DNS issue that won't let people reach me. Hmm... I expect its really a routing issue that won't let you at the DNS servers :\. I think its time to change ISP's again. Anyhow, the problem has to do with the screen system for sysinstall. Although I'm not familiar with it, it amounts to this: When a child entity (window, screen, etc.) terminates, the parent doesn't fully redraw. This had been fixed on a number of screens in the 4.x debug cycle. However, this one has been untouched as yet. I'd love to get in to it myself. Unfortunately, I'm less than a week and a half from adopting 3 children, I lost my office to two of the kids, construction of the new office is at least 6 weeks behind right now, and I have a 4.x device driver that needs finishing for Cyclades, and a vgetty call control program that needs the dynamic loader finished so people can start working on extensions (and no space to do the work in). Since Jordan set the 'hard date' on the release for 7/25, I was planning on letting it slide for this release (as its non-critical). However, I expect at this point that if I lift a finger to fix it, I'll get the -annouce mail that 4.1 has shipped about 30 seconds after I send the patches in :) -Brian > > (I tried to CC this to "Brian J. McGovern" , but > sendmail didn't like the domain) > > On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > 2.) After configuring the network interface, when you say "yes" to bring > > > it up, the screen clears, but it does _not_ redraw the underlying > > > screen (this problem has already been reported, and never fixed). > > > > I doubt this will get fixed for 4.1, but one of us can come back to it > > after the release is out. Is it just an aesthetic effect or does it stick > > you at a blank, blue screen and wait for input? > > I ran into this also on 5.0-CURRENT yesterday -- it leaves you with a blue > screen and a strategically placed, ``[ ]'' somewhere on the screen. I > haven't tracked it down enough to reproduce it. > > Robert N M Watson > > robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ > PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 > TIS Labs at Network Associates, Safeport Network Services > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message