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Date:      Fri, 3 Nov 2000 15:39:57 +0100
From:      Michel Talon <michel@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Linux emulation
Message-ID:  <20001103153957.A273@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
In-Reply-To: <200010250815.KAA41239@freebsd.dk>
References:  <C1256983.002A588C.00@frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr> <200010250815.KAA41239@freebsd.dk>

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Hello,

I have encountered today some fairly critical bugs in the Linux emulation.
This is on a 4.1-RELEASE box, i mention these problems in case they have not
been seen or corrected before 4.2-RELEASE

First one is with StarOffice 5.2, installed and running perfectly OK on the
Linux partition of my disk. Setting PATH=/linux/bin:/linux/usr/bin:$PATH
the setup program ran fine under freebsd. Then trying to run soffice 
immediately caused the machine to reboot.

After that,
i tried to mv /usr/compat/linux to another place and link my true /linux
partition to /usr/compat/linux. These seemed to work, but as soon as i tried
to remove the old /usr/compat/linux, the machine rebooted. Worst, during the
reboot, the loading of the linux kernel module again paniced the box. I had to
boot single user to cure that.

At least this showed the quality of the softupdates system. Nothing was
damaged, i even recovered my partially deleted /usr/compat/linux after reboot!



-- 
Michel Talon


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