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Date:      Wed, 4 Nov 1998 23:29:26 -0500 (EST)
From:      Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net>
To:        "Brian W. Buchanan" <brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netscape crashes (was: Re: OSS sound support)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811042327520.300-100000@picnic.mat.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9811042003140.333-100000@smarter.than.nu>

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On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Brian W. Buchanan wrote:

> On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Brian Tiemann wrote:
> 
> > 
> > 	So what's the deal with OSS on -current?
> > 
> > 	I've had it panicking my installation repeatedly; I got the
> > following recently from their (4Front's) tech support:
> > 
> > > We've found a major bug in FreeBSD's VM architecture and have sent off
> > > the demo which will crash FreeBSD 3 + Netscape. This is the same problem
> > > affecting OSS and so until we hear from the kernel developers' we're not
> > > going to do any work arounds. If you like, I can send you the test
> > > program.
> 
> I get the "Pinstripe screen of death" from AccelX + Netscape occasionally.
> I'd thought this was an AccelX bug, but I'd been too lazy to report it as
> it happens so infrequently.  I'm running current built Oct 12.

What you guys have posted so far amounts (as far as I can see) to little
more that gossip.  Is there any hard facts that one can verify?

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