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From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
Subject: Re: kern/6044: FreeBSD-3.0 Reboots
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The following reply was made to PR kern/6044; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To: delaitt@cpc.wmin.ac.uk, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:  Subject: Re: kern/6044: FreeBSD-3.0 Reboots
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 17:41:04 +0100

 On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 08:05:30AM -0800, delaitt@cpc.wmin.ac.uk wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         6044
 > >Category:       kern
 > >Synopsis:       FreeBSD-3.0 Reboots
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       serious
 > >Priority:       medium
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
 > >State:          open
 > >Quarter:
 > >Keywords:
 > >Date-Required:
 > >Class:          sw-bug
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Arrival-Date:   Tue Mar 17 08:10:01 PST 1998
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     Thierry Delaitre
 > >Organization:
 > Centre for Parallel Computing
 > >Release:        3.0-980313-SNAP
 > >Environment:
 > FreeBSD seth.cpc.wmin.ac.uk 3.0-980313-SNAP FreeBSD 3.0-980313-SNAP #0: Fri Mar 13 21:16:33 GMT 1998     root@seth.cpc.wmin.ac.uk:/usr/src/sys/compile/SETH  i386
 > >Description:
 > I installed the 3.0-980302-SNAP distribution and the kernel is currently
 > 3.0-980313-SNAP. The machine is configured as a workstation and also as
 > a mail server which exports /var/mail directory to other FreeBSD, SunOS,
 > and Solaris workstations. Apparently, when someone reads his mail, the
 > machine reboots automatically without any prior warning.
 > 
 > I installed FreeBSD-3.0 because FreeBSD-2.2.5 does not include all the
 > drivers such as the Ultra DMA driver which is needed for my Pentium II.
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > When users try to access large mailbox and/or when they starts a second
 > mail reader while an existing one is already started.
 > 
 > Unfortunately, it is not obvious to repeat the problem :-(
 > 
 > It would help if the FreeBSD box can report an error message before
 > rebooting.
 > >Fix:
 > It would help if the FreeBSD box can report an error message before
 > rebooting.
 
 First - the Ultra DMA driver is not required to run a Pentium II.  We
 use Pentium IIs on 2.2.5 fine.
 
 Second: The problem sounds like a bug in the NFS-handling, and a lot
 of such bugs were fixed on the 15th.  However, I'm not certain the
 kernel as of the moment is stable WRT file-systems (we've had
 conflicting reports), so I would be very careful about being bleeding
 edge right now.  (Unless you have extremely good backup, that is ;-)
 
 Third: Bugs in -current should usually be reported to
 current@freebsd.org, not sent in using send-pr.  Current is moving too
 fast for PRs to be really useful unless the bug is already
 long-standing.  Is it OK for you if I close this PR?
 
 Eivind.

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