Subject: 1.6ZA: COMPAT_16 broken (supposed)
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Christoph Egger <Christoph_Egger@gmx.de>
List: current-users
Date: 09/13/2003 15:54:45
Hi!

I am using -1-6 userland and upgraded my -current kernel to 1.6ZA today.
After booting it, I was able to login a message appeared which kind of
terminal
I have (vt100) but I got no shell prompt.

I tried to log in on another console, too. I got a message about the
terminal type
(vt220) and that's all. No login prompt.

Without knowing how to engage DDB manually, I was forced to hard reset
my machine.

Fortunately, I still have a working -1-6 kernel (without it, my netbsd
installation
would have been absolutely unuseable till a complete reinstall).

AFAIK, COMPAT_16 that has been added to keep -1-6 userland 
working, I suppose it is broken now.
(I didn't have this problem with 1.6Z and earlier kernels).


-- 
CU,

Christoph Egger
E-Mail: Christoph_Egger@gmx.de

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