Subject: Re: amd / am-utils in -current problem
To: None <mk@kilbi.de>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/04/2006 17:06:32
On Apr 4,  9:33pm, mk@kilbi.de (Markus W Kilbinger) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: amd / am-utils in -current problem

|     >> Primarily amd hangups. Normally amd is started via
|     >> /etc/rc.d/amd on my machines. For the first use / mount it
|     >> seems to work normally, but then, after the first unmount I
|     >> guess, the amd process vanishes and further access to the amd
|     >> managed paths just hangs. A restart of amd just hangs up the
|     >> whole session and blocks all further logins.
| 
|     Christos> So there must be a core-dump somewhere or something in
|     Christos> messages?
| 
| Hmm, difficult to see / test because the machine completely locked up
| now (go to reset it tomorrow manually).
| 
| Once I simply replaced the actual amd binary with an older one (before
| coverity patches I guess) which restored the old functionality and
| stability. Might these patches be the reason for my problems?

What's the date of the previous binary?

christos