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Re: 1.3 install report



Bruce Perens wrote:
> 
> From: Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
> > [1] When doing an [A]cess in dselect, I've got error messages from
> > the shell about a find command with bad syntax.
> 
> Can you run "script" and see if it catches that output, please?
> 
> > Other than that, the boot disks when ok, and after a blazingly fast
> > kernel recompile, SMP seems to be working perfectly ! I had a few
> > lockups though, digging the problem right now.
> 
> There is an SMP bug that causes intermittent crashes up until kernel version
> 2.0.29 as far as I am aware. I've heard of it indirectly, I can't say much
> more about it.

Look at the unofficial kernel patches at www.linuxhq.com, there
is a fresh new fix for some nasty SMP problem.  I just installed
it yesterday on 2.0.30 on Dual P-100 (Tomcat III).  It boots fine
but that's all I had time to play with it.

--Amos

--Amos Shapira                   | "Of course Australia was marked for
133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st.         |  glory, for its people had been
chosen
Jerusalem 93 805                 |  by the finest judges in England."
ISRAEL            amos@dsi.co.il |                     -- Anonymous


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