From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 14 13: 0:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 492E837B401 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:00:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-88.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 365CC43EAF for ; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:00:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 60B2266E5E; Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:00:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2002 13:00:46 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Nate Lawson , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: X problems & 5.0... -RELEASE? Message-ID: <20021014200045.GA51207@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <15786.50928.826403.959175@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <15787.1474.824422.286474@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="opJtzjQTFsWo+cga" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15787.1474.824422.286474@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 01:58:26PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote: >=20 > Nate Lawson writes: > > On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > Given that it (apparently) happens on X servers compiled months ago, > > > my gut feeling is that it is a bug in the kernel floating point > > > context save/restore in the presence of signals. > > >=20 > > > I still can't run X without crashing the *kernel* because of the > > > conglomeration of hacks that was added to i386/machdep.c to paper-ov= er > > > floatingpoing problems after the latest KSE brea^W import. The=20 > > > last machdep.c that works for me is 1.539. This has been dragging > > > on for nearly 2 weeks. > > >=20 > > > Drew > >=20 > > I don't know how to say this strongly enough but can someone PLEASE PL= EASE > > fix this properly? It is preventing real work from getting done. >=20 > I think we're all waiting for Julian and Jonathan Mini to fix this.. > It would probably help if they had some sort of a test program that > could duplicate the bug in a controlled setting without a lot of > confusing application software running.. Did anyone test -current with the various FP test suites people posted about last week? Kris --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9qyJtWry0BWjoQKURAo2tAKDpVKm8UmdxVXIz9iM4hHB/ptOo3gCfVsIE rFD2BWEitWFX1x2f1rHRNLM= =FRm6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message