Subject: Re: Lastest (19980322) current kernel status
To: None <kjetil@thomassen.priv.no>
From: Chris Gilbert <cg110@york.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 04/19/1998 22:29:50
In message <Marcel-1.42-0419195835-313+YEw@kjetilbt.eunet.no> you wrote:

> On Sun 19 Apr, paul wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Kjetil B. Thomassen wrote:
> > 
> > > 3) dmesg does not work. It gives me a kvm_read error.
> > >    I guess I need to recompile dmesg or the userland library.
> > 
> > At a guess you need to install a new libkvm.so.x (and the .a for
> > building the /bin binaries such as ps). Hrm, does ps still work?
>
> Yes, ps does still works.

You say in a previous email you're using 1.3 Alpha, this maybe the
problem...

> > What abount mounting /kern
> > and looking at the message buffer :)
>
> How do I do that?
>
> /sbin/dmesg is statically linked (being in /sbin), so library should
> not be a problem. But, I tested the dmesg binary from 1.3.1, and that
> seems to work correctly.

> > As an aside my RPC 700 running 1.2G acting as a small file server
> > now has 150 days uptime (actually I think its only 149 but I cant
> > check right now). Congrats to Mark on that version being that
> > stable!
>
> I second this.

I agree as well, Most versions are stable, I don't remember many
versions that wern't (except those I'd hacked a bit ;)

Chris