Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 08:37:41 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: alissa bader <mol666@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: and now, core dumps/bus errors/3.2 updated to 3.5-STABLE Message-ID: <20000920083741.V9141@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20000920151222.25957.qmail@web801.mail.yahoo.com>; from mol666@yahoo.com on Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:12:22AM -0700 References: <20000920151222.25957.qmail@web801.mail.yahoo.com>
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* alissa bader <mol666@yahoo.com> [000920 08:12] wrote: > I initially set up my machine (yeah, a pentium) with > 3.2 release. Then I ran a cvsup to 3.5-STABLE (this > is the most current version of 3, correct?). > > The make world went perfectly. I followed the > directions to the letter in the FreeBSD handbook. > Only initial problem I had at first was the /var > partition filled up 'cause the output script got too > big. Putting the script over to /usr/tmp solved that > problem. Rebuilding the kernel went fine. Using > mergemaster went fine. Rebooting went fine. > Everything went fine. > > But now, whenever I try to use, say, BitchX or > netscape, I get segmentation faults/core dumps, or bus > errors. These happen about 8 times out of ten when I > try to run these programs. I tried downloading the > new ircii package, got an error message I was missing > some shared libraries. There were some changes in the way floating point operations are handled by FreeBSD, you may want to reinstall the packages you're having problems with from an updated ports tree. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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