Hello people,

I'm having a variety of interesting problems with the early 08/98 UVM
sets (dated 19980804 I think):

(1)     I've compiled lesstif-0.86.0 and it crashes all over the place
with a number or core dumps (rather like shared libraries did before
they were fixed). Is this bug specific to lesstif or not? Has anyone got
it working?
(2)     KDE makes a lot more fuss than it used to when you start it up
using startx and look at the output on the console (eg press Alt-F1). Is
this KDE or the installation?
(3)     typing 'reboot' at the shell prompt takes an age to do anything.
The earlier UVM sets work fine.
(4)     I had a huge crash this afternoon after reinstalling the system
from scratch with the 19980804 kernel and the above-mentioned snapshots:
I was running three consoles: one was compiling the gtk toolkit and the
other two weren't doing anything much... I typed 'ls' and nothing
happened so I switched to another console and ran top, to kill a few
select tasks, which wouldn't quit. So I stopped the compile and decided
to reboot. I waited about five minutes and gave up and pressed Ctrl-Esc
to force a kernel panic. After syncing the discs, the kernel proceeded
to print a large number of "transmission page fault" errors one after
another and then did nothing.

All this happened after I changed from the earlier uvm stuff to the most
recent snapshots. Has anyone else had these problems or is it an
isolated incident? Should I revert to the earlier uvm sets permanently
(I'm in the middle of reinstalling from scratch and putting them back
on). Any assistance would be appreciated.

tim

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Timothy Coltman