[251] in netbsd-help mailing list archive
Re: 1.0a reboot hangs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sat Jul 1 02:24:20 1995
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 1995 02:24:02 -0400
To: "Determination and moderation are my left and right hand."
<davidz@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[249] in netbsd-help mailing list archive"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> I've taken the 'reboot' problem into my own hands. I found an April
> compilation of the 1.0a kernel and replaced my June kernel. This
> kernel works very happily now, and netbsd shuts down correctly.
We don't recommend doing this. In general it's a poor idea to use
kernels you don't have source for and cannot easily rebuild.
> problem is, now my 'ps' and 'w' both report
> proc size mismatch
>
> Is there anyway I can correct this? or should I just leave the old
> kernel alone?
If you had a kernel source tree for that kernel you could build a new
version of ps, but you don't. I'm afraid we don't either.
We expect that the afs-related shutdown-time crashes will go away
in the relatively near future, and in general we find that more
recent kernels are better. As such, while there's not a whole lot
you can do, we recommend grinning and bearing it.
--jhawk@mit.edu.
John Hawkinson
