Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 17:07:56 -0500 (EST) From: "Jon C. Smith" <jonsmith@physics.purdue.edu> To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980418165551.8182C-100000@fourier.physics.purdue.edu>
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I upgraded from 2.2.5-RELEASE to 2.2.6-STABLE about 2 or three weeks ago, and I decided to upgrade X from 3.3.1 to 3.3.2 (in a vain hope that certain keyboard problems would be eliminated). I went about this by going into /usr/src/release/sysintall, doing a 'make' followed by a 'make install', going into the new sysinstall, and re selecting the distributions of X I had installed, only in the newer version. Somewhere along the line, I did a 'du' and noticed my 100 meg root partition had gone from ~24% to ~66%. Ok, so I looked in /temp. No new files there. Started poking around, I could _not_ find what file was sitting there with (at that point) about 50 megs of my drive space. Eventually, the root partition got to 104% capacity, I aborted the X windows install, and rebooted the system. Suddently, I have only ~24% of my root partition full. I am totally baffled. FYI, the keyboard problems I was trying to fix, which appear to only occur in X, on two different motherboards, are spontaneous insertion of a ' after a new line, spontaneous number insertion (single digit) when using the arro keyss, specific keys apparently delay before appearing, so the familiar "... | more" usually comes up "... | moer". Shift, control and alt staying as if they are down even after I release the character. These effects increase the longer the keyboard is in use, and has occasionally locked the keyboard completely, leaving me to _unplug the keyboard_ while the system is ON (bad idea) and re-plugging it in. Thanks, j. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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