From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 21 18:47:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA06753 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 18:47:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA06748 for ; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 18:47:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jfieber@localhost) by fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA01511; Thu, 21 Mar 1996 21:47:23 -0500 Date: Thu, 21 Mar 1996 21:47:22 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber X-Sender: jfieber@fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu To: Terry Lambert cc: JULIAN Elischer , rich@lamprey.utmb.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Mathematica under FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <199603220141.SAA01623@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 21 Mar 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > I would put in: > > > > > > { > > > int i; > > > printf( "here 1\n"); > > > for( i=0; i < 0x7fffffff; i++) /* adjust down for time*/ > > > continue; > > > } > > > > > that's silly, he doesn't have the source to that (I believe) > > Now *that's* silly. I was talking about the kernel, not the program. > > The bug is in the kernel if the program runs on Linux but not FreeBSD. > > He needs to find out which Linux system call is blowing chunks, then Actually, it is license manager that comes with the SCO WordPerfect which, incidentally, works on linux but I don't think that is too relevant here. Unfortunately I don't really have the time to dive into kernel debugging at the moment. Also aside from a -current kernel I can boot, my system is -stable and it is pretty important that it stay that way at the moment. Its sort of a hassle working when basic things like ps don't work. Maybe once summer rolls around... However, if anyone has particular ideas of what may be going on and can provide a relatively simple experiment for me to try, I'm game. As a note, there is a good 5 or 10 seconds between freezing and when the screen goes blank which would be enough time to read console messages. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fieber-john.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ============