In light of the prior post (option-1,2,3), I tried out two of the
kernels that were recently made available at 

	ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/mac68k/binary/

(The date on the files is July 1).

netbsd.MRG-6
	Booted okay to the console in multi-user mode.  Interesting
	thing happened -- shortly after logging in, I edited a
	configuration file.  Wanting to HUP the daemon (syslogd), I
	used "ps -aux" to find it's process ID number.

	The first line out ps' output:

	ps: proc size mismatch: 8088  should be 666 

	At this time, the system had been up for less than 5 minutes.
	I went along and did a few things from the console (read last
	night's e-mail, etc), and checked back frequently.  The
	numbers changed slightly, but the first stayed in the range of
	8000 < x < 9000 and the second in the range of 600 < x <700.

	Later, starting X lands me in the debugger....


netbsd.GENERIC-6

	Immediately after booting, I tried ps.  Same "proc size
	mismatch".  Nothing unusual in the boot process.  Started X
	okay.  Fetched today's e-mail....

	Very interesting thing...somehow or other, stdin under this
	kernel eventually caught itself in a regressive loop.  For
	example, I'd type "ls -l" -- it would appear on the screen as 

	lllllllllllllllllllsssssssssssssssssssssss           ------
---------------lllllllllllllllllllllll

	followed by several dozen carriage returns.  Just as if every
	key on the keyboard had gotten stuck for a brief period after
	being pressed.

	After this began happening, I killed the X server.  The
	phenomenon continued from the console.

	I logged out.... the problem persisted when the new login
	prompt came up.

Option 1-2-3 did not work under these kernels either (I thought these
bindings were hard wired....).

Hope there was something useful in that.

NetBSD 1.4 Q605 33MHz, FPU

Steve Revilak
revilak@umbsky.cc.umb.edu
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