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From: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>
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Subject: Re: NIS breakage
To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray)
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 15:51:38 -0500 (EST)
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In-Reply-To: <199701192000.WAA06131@grackle.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Jan 19, 97 10:00:21 pm
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Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Mark Murray had 
to walk into mine and say:

> > > you also do me a favor and get rid of that second loopback interface
> > > and see what happens then? (And I mean really get rid of it: configure
> > > it out of the kernel, don't just ifconfig it down.)
> > 
> > Will do.
> 
> Done. Aliases moved to lo0. No change - instant crash of portmap when I
> try run passwd(1). (same as before)

Bah. Alright. Monday, I will load the latest 3.0 SNAP (which seems to
be the right vintage) and try to duplicate this problem.

I'm a little concerned that I may not be able to duplicate it though,
mainly since you say you have other machines with the same build that
don't exhibit the problem. Dan Cross suggested this may be related to
a timing problem of some kind which only manifests itself on slower
hardware. Unfortunately, my test machine is a 486/33; the fact that
it's a different CPU type might affect the results.

You say this system is a 386/40. Did you fiddle with the kernel config
for this machine so that it has just the I386_CPU cpu type defined, or
does it still have the same cpu support as GENERIC? Also, does it have
hardware FPU support? If not, did you use options MATH_EMULATE or
options GPL_MATH_EMULATE?

-Bill

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