Messages in this thread |  | | From | Kevin Buettner <> | Subject | Re: 1.3.97 unreliable | Date | Fri, 3 May 1996 10:20:02 -0700 (MST) |
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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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