From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 4 20:06:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA10968 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 20:06:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smarter.than.nu (lal-99-91.Reshall.Berkeley.EDU [169.229.99.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA10935 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 20:06:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smarter.than.nu (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA00438 for ; Wed, 4 Nov 1998 20:05:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 20:05:55 -0800 (PST) From: "Brian W. Buchanan" X-Sender: brian@smarter.than.nu To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Netscape crashes (was: Re: OSS sound support) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Brian Tiemann wrote: > > So what's the deal with OSS on -current? > > I've had it panicking my installation repeatedly; I got the > following recently from their (4Front's) tech support: > > > We've found a major bug in FreeBSD's VM architecture and have sent off > > the demo which will crash FreeBSD 3 + Netscape. This is the same problem > > affecting OSS and so until we hear from the kernel developers' we're not > > going to do any work arounds. If you like, I can send you the test > > program. I get the "Pinstripe screen of death" from AccelX + Netscape occasionally. I'd thought this was an AccelX bug, but I'd been too lazy to report it as it happens so infrequently. I'm running current built Oct 12. -- Brian Buchanan brian@smarter.than.nu brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message