dave@dms3b1.UUCP (Dave Hanna) (08/06/88)
In article <706@sialis.mn.org> rjg@sialis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin) writes: [ discussion of BREAK bug with ph0 affecting tty000 deleted] >However, installing the 3.51 >fixdisks (3.51a kernel) will solve this problem (if not solved by >3.51) as well as a few other nasties. > >Granted, 3.51a also creates a new problem, particularly attributed to >the 3.51a fixdisk, but 3.51b (not yet completed) will resolve those >issues as well. What are the bugs introduced by the 3.51a kernel? I've been running if for a couple months, and haven't noticed anything, although it still doesn't seem to hang up the phone after a uucico, which was one of the things I thought was supposed to be fixed. BTW, I've had my system up since February with only 1 or 2 unexplained crashes. I've been real pleased. >-- >"I've been trying for some time to Robert J. Granvin -- Dave Hanna, Daltech MicroSystems | "Do or do not -- There is no try" P.O. Box 584, Bedford, TX 76095 | - Yoda (214) 358-4534 (817) 540-1524 | UUCP: ...!killer!gtmvax!dave |
rjg@sialis.mn.org (Robert J. Granvin) (08/07/88)
>What are the bugs introduced by the 3.51a kernel? I've been running >if for a couple months, and haven't noticed anything, although it >still doesn't seem to hang up the phone after a uucico, which was >one of the things I thought was supposed to be fixed. > >BTW, I've had my system up since February with only 1 or 2 unexplained >crashes. I've been real pleased. There are a couple of extremely obscure bugs that apparently only a very few people have found. It's so obscure that ATT won't even bother telling you what it is. :-) Anyways, the biggest problem introduced is uucico traffic through the On Board Modem _may_ in some some cases, cause the machine to panic. This is similar to the "crash after uucico" problem uucico used to have, but this is actually caused by the OBM driver stuff within the kernel. It has some difficulties closing out a buffer, and dies. Sometimes. This is being repaired in that next release. By the way, this bug does not affect any of the serial ports, so if you're not using the OBM, you won't actually see this problem (though with 3b1's, there's no guarantee you won't see any problems anyways, :-) -- Robert J. Granvin "Martyrs are just dying National Information Systems, Inc. to be heroes." rjg@sialis.mn.org ...{{amdahl,hpda}!bungia,rosevax}!sialis!rjg