From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 19 08:48:16 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1527C16A4CE for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:48:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kane.otenet.gr (kane.otenet.gr [195.170.0.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7465443D1D for ; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:48:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (host5.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.229])i9J8liBS007899; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:47:59 +0300 Received: from orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (orion [127.0.0.1]) i9J8lfrB003435; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:47:41 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost)i9J8lcvf003434; Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:47:38 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:47:38 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Tuc Message-ID: <20041019084738.GB3298@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> References: <200410190003.i9J035e0011461@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200410190003.i9J035e0011461@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why would patch cause problems? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 08:48:16 -0000 On 2004-10-18 20:03, Tuc wrote: > Hi, > > I did a little more investigation of the problem with nVidia on > 5.2.1-RELEASE-pX where X is higher than 4....... > > It turns out that after hand applying patches, once I apply the > "msync5.patch" that was p9, my nVidia X starts to have problems and lock up. > Once I back this out, the machine operates properly. I also ran into problems > where programs were coreing on Signal 6's.... SSH became useless, perl would > fall over randomly, etc. > > This patch was all of 6 new lines, one changed line, but I can swap > back and forth and know that this will cause my machine to misbehave/crash. > > Is there any way to start talking to someone to figure out what the > cause is and maybe have a change done? If the patch is so small, you could post it here, to -hackers or -current, and see if someone has an idea why you see the change in your system's behavior that you describe.