From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 15 9:23:45 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 271CD37B400; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 09:23:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 6B5F55346; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 18:23:36 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Doug Barton Cc: Murray Stokely , , current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Preparing innocent users for -current References: <20020308110442.G32653-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 15 Mar 2002 18:23:35 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20020308110442.G32653-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Barton writes: > 1. phk malloc debugging flags enabled by default. Solutions include > recompiling apps, and toggling things off in /etc/malloc.conf. No recompiling needed; if you don't like the default options, just # ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf > 2. pam modules break backwards compatibility with pam apps compiled on > RELENG_4. The only solution I've been offered is to recompile things (or, > my preferred solution, don't use pam). Wrong. PAM modules are now versioned, and old (unversioned) modules will not be clobbered. We might want to put the old libpam and modules in COMPAT_4X though. > 3. xconsole causes periodic panics. The problem (according to BDE) is "a > well-know bug in printf(9)," caused by "The TIOCCONS ioctl ... panics when > printf() is called while sched_lock is held." I reported this bug in > October 2001, if anyone wants to look through the archives. Ages-old, very difficult to fix. Just don't use xconsole. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message