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    SubjectRe: 1.3.97 unreliable
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    Tim Towers writes:

    > I am, for the first time finding the linux kernel 1.3.97 and
    > libc-5.3.12 unreliable.
    >
    > This is puzzling. I have found it slow before, sometimes broken and
    > possibly wonderful but never unreliable.
    >
    > When rebooting sometimes it stops in the last stages saying
    > "no more processes at runlevel 6", sometimes it reboots alright.
    >
    > When starting up sometimes syslogd doesn't start and I end up with
    > kernel messages over my running console. If syslogd failed to start
    > up, it can be started by hand all right.
    >
    > Sometimes characters get lost on their way to the modem.
    >
    > As mentioned in the 'net' mailing list, I am also having intermittant
    > networking problems. I am at present writing this mail on the xterm which
    > a few minutes ago was unpingable from my linux box.
    >
    > I have lurked on the mailing list (well, linux.dev.kernel if you
    > must know) and haven't seen any of these problems being reported by
    > anyone else, which is why they worry me in particular. Perhaps I am
    > imagining them, since we know that linux is bug-free :-)

    You've just convinced me to hold off on running libc-5.3.x for a while
    (longer).

    I'm running 1.3.97 with no problems whatsoever. It actually feels
    like we're getting close to 2.0.

    Kevin


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