Subject: Re: Pine 4.21 hangs or dies
To: Marinier, M. Claude, G. <claude.marinier@dreo.dnd.ca>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/01/2000 10:43:22
On Mon, 1 May 2000, Marinier, M. Claude, G. wrote:

> After building a new kernel (NetBSD 1.4.2 i386), pine 4.21 hangs and does
> not respond to ^C. Top shows the process uses all available CPU. Kill -9
> stops the process. When I run pine with the debug level set to 9, 8, or 7,
> I get "Bad system call"; when I set the debug level to 6, it hangs.
> 
> The pine executable was built on 1.4.1 system. I have re-built it this
> morning and get the same behaviour.
> 
> My guess is that pine depends on some compatibility option which I did not
> include when I built the kernel.
> 
> Does anyone know which option I should put back?

Sorry, don't know. I usually just leave them all on (same as GENERIC).
 
> By the way, startx fails now with 'failed to open /dev/mem and
> /dev/xf86'. I will pursue this one separately.

For that, you need to either rebuild a kernel with "options INSECURE",
or figure out how to install the Aperture driver.