From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 15 14:44:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from gw.gbch.net (gw.gbch.net [203.143.238.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6F23037B419 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 14:44:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 21470 invoked by uid 1001); 16 Mar 2002 08:44:15 +1000 X-Posted-By: GJB-Post 2.25 04-Mar-2002 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386 X-Uptime: 65 days, 15:02 X-Location: Brisbane, Australia; 27.49841S 152.98439E X-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb.html X-Image-URL: http://www.gbch.net/gjb/gjb-auug048.gif X-GPG-Fingerprint: EBB2 2A92 A79D 1533 AC00 3C46 5D83 B6FB 4B04 B7D6 X-PGP-Public-Keys: http://www.gbch.net/keys.html Message-Id: Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 08:44:15 +1000 From: Greg Black To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Doug Barton , Murray Stokely , bmah@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Preparing innocent users for -current References: <20020308110442.G32653-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com> In-reply-to: of 15 Mar 2002 18:23:35 +0100 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 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: | > 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. You left out the final sentence with the suggested alternative. Greg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message