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Date:      Sun, 25 Jun 2000 23:43:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Kenneth Wayne Culver <culverk@wam.umd.edu>
To:        Chuck Robey <chuckr@picnic.mat.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD-current <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Config problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.21.0006252341360.10155-100000@rac8.wam.umd.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006252244330.318-100000@picnic.mat.net>

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Hey chuck, except for the SMP stuff, your config looks mostly like mine (I
only have a cpu line for i686) Let me know if there's anything I can do to
help though.


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On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Chuck Robey wrote:

> I am getting a config error with the new gethints.pl stuff:
> 
> unrecognized config token 1
> 
> This is with a newly cvsupped system, and I checked the version of
> gethints.pl:
> 
> ROOT:/usr/src/sys/i386/conf:472 >cvs status gethints.pl
> ===================================================================
> File: gethints.pl       Status: Up-to-date
> 
>    Working revision:    1.4     Sun Jun 18 01:43:22 2000
>    Repository revision: 1.4     /home/ncvs/src/sys/i386/conf/gethints.pl,v
>    Sticky Tag:          (none)
>    Sticky Date:         (none)
>    Sticky Options:      (none)
> 
> So I think that's right.  My config file before had worked just fine, but
> as a test, I went thru it and really tried to make it squeaky clean, but
> it didn't seem to get rid of that error.  I don't know if this message
> indicates a fatal problem or just is a leftover printf, there's damned
> little in the way of info in it.
> 
> I don't know, maybe that error message is referring to line 1 of my config
> file?  Here's the start of the config file:
> 
> machine         i386
> 
> cpu             I586_CPU
> cpu             I686_CPU
> ident           CH
> maxusers        64
> 
> # Create a SMP capable kernel (mandatory options):
> options         SMP                     # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
> options         APIC_IO                 # Symmetric (APIC) I/O
> 
> If that doesn't do it, I'm attaching the entire config file to this mail.
> 
> Sure would appreciate a hint; I'm not a perl hacker, but if I gotta become
> one to puzzle this out, it's going to take me an long extra while trying
> to get me a new kernel.
> 
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> Chuck Robey            | Interests include C & Java programming, FreeBSD,
> chuckr@picnic.mat.net  | electronics, communications, and signal processing.
> 
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> fictitious words in the dictionary.
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