Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 19:28:44 +0100 (MET) From: Andreas Klemm <andreas@knobel.gun.de> To: Thomas Neumann <tom@smart.ruhr.de> Cc: Nate Williams <nate@rocky.sri.MT.net>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Impressions of stability ( was Re: FreeBSD-current-stable ??? ) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951221192208.4225A-100000@knobel.gun.de> In-Reply-To: <877mzv5gwn.fsf@smart.ruhr.de>
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On 18 Dec 1995, Thomas Neumann wrote:
> Folks, don't you think that this "discussion" is gaining a
> dangerous amount of emotional momentum - lets try to keep
> it 'professional' instead of 'personal'.
Well on the way ;-)
> Personally, I'm experiencing relatively few problems with -current.
True. I installed current two days ago and must say, that it's
running fine so far with only few exceptions. Let me tell you the
experiences I made.
Base system was FreeBSD-stable 2.1. I supped the -current
of 19.12.95
- make world:
stopped when compiling ypserv.
rpcgen (2.1 version) didn't understand the new
commandline flags of the -current version. So I commented
out ypserv. I build it later.
- the top utility can't be compiled. There is a machine dependend
file for FreeBSD-2.2 missing.
A top version compiled on 2.1 dies with a core dump. Possibly
other utilities might be affected by this, too. Things in 2.2
seems to have changed. Would be nice, if there would be a list
of changes in /usr/src, so that it's clear, where to dig around,
if something doesn't compile or run.
- problems with du
when being in roots home dir it dies in the middle:
root# du
1 ./.tin/.news
1 ./.tin/.save
1 ./.tin/.mail
15 ./.tin
1 ./Mail/inbox
1 ./Mail/drafts
3 ./Mail
1 ./News
1 ./.elm
2 ./.tkined
3 ./.nn
du: fts_read: No such file or directory
- rtin
I configured rtin to look into /etc/nntpserver to get the name
of the nntp server. My old 2.1 binary shows the following mis-
behaviour:
connecting /etc/nntpserver
/etc/nntpserver: unknown host
it's the new beta of tin. Worked under 2.1.
- screensaver:
on startup the following error message:
undefined entry symbol '_saver_init'
ld: Spurious undefined symbols: # undefined symbols 1, reposted 0
My sysconfig configuration:
blanktime=600
saver=green
- strange sendmail messages on startup, when there are still
mails in the mailqueue waiting for the nameserver ...
(waiting to be sent via smtp). But when I run off the net...
Dec 21 06:46:41 knobel sendmail[190]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: putoutmsg (NO-HOST): erro
r on output channel sending "451 before main() initmaps: fd 1 not open: Bad file
descriptor": Input/output error
Dec 21 06:46:41 knobel sendmail[190]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): before main() initm
aps: fd 1 not open: Bad file descriptor
Dec 21 06:46:41 knobel sendmail[190]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): before main() initm
aps: fd 2 not open: Bad file descriptor
FreeBSD-current runs stable so far. No crashes. Ok, I have fine std
hardware....
I think I can live with current. Would be fine, if some of the above
mentioned things could be fixed. And concerning the history of
important changes ... This should be a must.
Puh, just had problems with my freshly compiled pine...
malloc warning:
free(): already free chunk
I'm currently in X11, fired up pine in an xterm. Loaded the
900 messages long -current mailinglist folder. Edited this reply.
Edited a 20MB large messages file with vi in parallel. Truncated it
to 1M length. When I wanted to send the message I got /var filesystem
full message, first. Deceided to save the 1 MB messages file and to
leave vi. Checked space in /var. Then I got the free(): message...
Since then cursor positioning in vi wasn't ok. Wrote the file to /tmp/xxx
(/tmp is a 90M large memory filesystem). And wrote it to /tmp/yyy.
When I entered pine this time, I wanted to include /tmp/xxx as my
reply. The file was empty (surprise, surprise). /tmp/yyy was ok,
puh... ;-)
I think I'm surely the one and only who got this result ;-))
If there are any questions ... ?!
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