Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 14:54:12 -0500 From: Normand Leclerc <nospam@ele.etsmtl.ca> To: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Syslog reports weird things Message-ID: <3AAD2964.B72D5CB1@ele.etsmtl.ca> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E452205FD9A4F@l04.research.kpn.com>
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Kees, > > On FreeBSD 4.3-BETA, I get some weird reports from syslog about the > > kernel. It seems like the console's output is interpreted in the > Hmm. You mean like this? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=24663 > Kinda like it yes but it is clear text instead of hex dumps. The worst program that does this is lynx. As soon as I get down a page with lynx, my screen gets screwed. I have to ctrl-l it to read (and that it when there are no ansi codes changing colors) > and reproduce this. Someone suggested that by doing installworld properly > (i.e. do installworld in single user mode) this problem can be fixed. Hmmm I compiled and installed it in single user mode last night. I'll have to check it out tonight (as I'm not home 'till then). I'll come back to you on this. I had problems compiling world when I was using CPUTYPE=pca56 instead of ev56 ... Don't know why, it's supposed to be an SX machine. Anyway, this is a nother problem not related to this annoying one. My guess is that it won't change a thing. > Which brings me to a related point: as I understand UNIX file system > semantics, when I overwrite a file by moving another one into its place > > ones that hold /usr/src and /usr/obj. Apart from ntpd and sshd single user > mode looks the same way as multiusermode. What part of the install would not > work in multiuser mode? > You are right all along. There are still deamons depending on libraries when overwriting. I beleive there should be some other safest way to do things like copying everything in temp directories and then, while booting, replacing the old ones. I don't know how this could be done tough. It would require a lot more space in /usr ... I don't know what daemons are doing when replacing libraries on the fly... Normand Leclerc lecn1306@ele.etsmtl.ca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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