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Date:      Wed, 30 Sep 1998 23:42:37 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Craig Johnston <caj@lfn.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: kernel fall down, go BOOM
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.01.9809302341210.414-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980930164747.2502A-100000@jane.lfn.org>

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On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Craig Johnston wrote:

> > On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Craig Johnston wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > The crash is reproducible on my machine.
> > > 
> > > The machine is a recent IBM Thinkpad 560e w/80 megs of RAM.
> > > 
> > > The kernel is current, cvsupped between 1900 and 2000 UTC today.
> > 
> 
> I realized shortly after mailing what probably happened -- the
> softupdates source likely changed and I needed to copy the new versions
> into the kernel source tree.  It had been a while since I originally
> installed softupdates and I had forgotten all about it.
> 
> I copied the new versions into the kernel source tree and everything
> works fine.
> 
> Hope nobody wasted any time.
> 
> Sorry for the trouble -- chalk up a 'duh' for me.

No problem.  It happened to me twice so I remembered :-).  You might find
it preferable to symlink the softupdates files into the kernel tree to
help avoid them becoming stale.

--
Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 951 1891
					Fax:   +44 181 381 1039


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