figuei@arakis.rutgers.edu (Francisco Figueirido) (06/06/91)
Hi! As the subject line says, I am trying to upgrade from 1.5.10.3 (with a few more patches) to 1.5.10.4. I am obviously not doing things right, since I have had the following problem (first of all, let me say that some of the crc's don't match partly because I have included a few other patches and partly because of the liberal use of tabs instead of spaces in different files, and partly, probably, because of genuine problems ...): I managed to compile the kernel+fs+mm+init and boot with the new kernel, but when my /etc/rc reaches the point where it tries to read the date from /dev/tty it hangs, and nothing short of pressing the reset button will work. If I comment that line out of my /etc/rc I get the login: prompt but as soon as I press any key it hangs. In both cases it seems to enter a loop which outputs the last string written (either the prompt for the date or login:) forever. I wonder whether anybody else has had a problem like this or should I try to fish out my "original" 1.5.10.3 sources? By the way, I found a slight problem when compiling: in fs/glo.h u16_t is typedefed, but that was also typedefed in sys/types.h, which is included before glo.h, so the compiler bombs. Also, kernel/stfloppy.c with the 1.5.10.4 upgrade looks older than 1.5.10.3 (the function do_open in particular). Anyway, if somebody has any idea what can be going on please let me know by mail or posting to the net. Thanks very much for the trouble. Francisco Figueirido email: figuei@lutece.rutgers.edu