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Date:      Sat, 19 Jan 2002 02:01:39 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Subject:   Re: Possible bug in 4.5-RC1 vs VMware (linux emulation?)
Message-ID:  <p05101213b86ec9d2d448@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <p0510100ab8647c8ea49e@[128.113.24.47]>
References:  <p0510100ab8647c8ea49e@[128.113.24.47]>

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On Jan 11/2002 (a week ago), Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>I upgraded to 4.5-RC1 as it was on Wednesday (Jan 9th) at about 7pm.
>I then upgraded most (but not quite all) of my ports.  On Thursday
>I needed to run VMware2 to debug some obscure problem I am seeing
>elsewhere (something not related to freebsd at all).
>
>The possible-bug part is that I get an error message when starting
>up vmware, saying "VMware was unable to read from /dev/acd0c.  This
>can be caused by a Linux kernel bug...".  It is saying "Linux kernel"
>because this is the Linux version of VMware2, which I am running via
>Linux emulation on freebsd.  So, it thinks the host OS is linux.  In
>any case, I wasn't getting this error until after those upgrades.
>
>All my ports are updated except for:
>     cvsup  gdk-pixbuf  glib  gtk  lcms  mozilla  and stunnel
>so I don't *think* any of those would be the problem.

For what it's worth, today I did another buildworld, and I seemed to
still have the error (but I only did one test).  I then upgraded all
of my ports, and the error with the CD-ROM vs Vmware has gone away.
So, whatever the problem was, I think it has been fixed now.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu

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