From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jan 18 23: 1:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rpi.edu (mail.rpi.edu [128.113.22.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C068737B416 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 23:01:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.acs.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by mail.rpi.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g0J71ec110804; Sat, 19 Jan 2002 02:01:41 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 02:01:39 -0500 To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garance A Drosihn Subject: Re: Possible bug in 4.5-RC1 vs VMware (linux emulation?) Cc: Marcel Moolenaar , Dag-Erling Smorgrav Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message