From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 3 6:42: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C50E237B4CF for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 06:41:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr [134.157.10.1]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.10.0/jtpda-5.3.3) with ESMTP id eA3Efvq85048 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 15:41:57 +0100 (CET) Received: from rose.lpthe.jussieu.fr ([134.157.10.102]) by parthe.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.9.1a/jtpda-5.3.1) with ESMTP id PAA22014 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 15:41:56 +0100 (MET) Received: (from michel@localhost) by rose.lpthe.jussieu.fr (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA00295 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 15:39:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from michel) Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 15:39:57 +0100 From: Michel Talon To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux emulation Message-ID: <20001103153957.A273@lpthe.jussieu.fr> Mail-Followup-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200010250815.KAA41239@freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <200010250815.KAA41239@freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have encountered today some fairly critical bugs in the Linux emulation. This is on a 4.1-RELEASE box, i mention these problems in case they have not been seen or corrected before 4.2-RELEASE First one is with StarOffice 5.2, installed and running perfectly OK on the Linux partition of my disk. Setting PATH=/linux/bin:/linux/usr/bin:$PATH the setup program ran fine under freebsd. Then trying to run soffice immediately caused the machine to reboot. After that, i tried to mv /usr/compat/linux to another place and link my true /linux partition to /usr/compat/linux. These seemed to work, but as soon as i tried to remove the old /usr/compat/linux, the machine rebooted. Worst, during the reboot, the loading of the linux kernel module again paniced the box. I had to boot single user to cure that. At least this showed the quality of the softupdates system. Nothing was damaged, i even recovered my partially deleted /usr/compat/linux after reboot! -- Michel Talon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message