From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Nov 10 06:42:54 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA23672 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 06:42:54 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA23665 for ; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 06:42:52 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id GAA08382; Fri, 10 Nov 1995 06:40:00 -0800 To: Neil Clark cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Catastrophic Failure! In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 10 Nov 1995 13:44:12 GMT." <9511101344.aa03231@bell.cs.strath.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 06:39:59 -0800 Message-ID: <8374.816014399@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > Making the world from the latest snap is beginning to sound *incredibly* > tempting, although perhaps a little wasteful of time in light of the > imminent "proper" release, but my impatience knows no bounds! Well, it's not that long or difficult a procedure - go ahead. You must sleep sometime! :-) > I have a Diamond Stealth DRAM 64. Hmmm. That's a newer one. I wouldn't be at all surprised if there are lurking bogons there still. > I didn't know one could *buy* X servers for FreeBSD. Do they sell a lot? > Presumably they are easier to set up or something than the standard (free) > ones? Significantly easier. Send mail to info@xinside.com for ordering details. > I'm beginning to think my crash was just "one of these things." Netscape > hung the X server on a SparcStation here recently as well, but didn't crash > the machine; maybe it was just a fatal combination of flaky netscape + mixed > binaries + administrative incompetence on my part? I guess we'll never know ; Can you reproduce it? Jordan