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Number of hits since April 14, 1996
Updated 9/5/96
Changed:
ps, top, vmstat all report Floating Point Exception, or incorrect values due
to development in the /proc filesystem.
Solution:
Get procps-1.01
from your favorite ftp site.
Changed:
There were some changes in the way modules are handled.
Solution:
Check out http://www.pi.se/blox/modules for more information
Changed:
Verbose error information about broken flock() emulation was added
in 1.3.94 or .95
Solution:
Upgrade to libc 5.2.18 -- You can get this from
ftp://ftp.nether.net/linux/libc-ELF or
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/GCC
If you have A.OUT binaries, you need to get this
library and install it in /lib and run ldconfig afterwards:
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/libs/libc.so.4.7.6.gz
Changed:
The PPP driver was updated around 1.3.45
Solution:
Get the new pppd from: ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Network/serial/
Changed:
uugetty (from getty_ps) prevents use of a bidirectional serial line.
Solution:
Get the newest version of getty_ps; must have at least version getty_ps-2.0.7h
Changed:
System FSCK's the filesystem each time you shut it dow, or the system does
not reboot or halt properly on a shutdown
Solution:
Get the latest version of sysVinit:
ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/People/miquels
Changed:
Linux console type changed.
Solution:
Add linux to a type of console in your /etc/termcap file. You will
also need to create "linux" as a terminal type in /usr/lib/terminfo/l.
Run this command as root to fix it:
ln -s /usr/lib/terminfo/l/linux /usr/lib/terminfo/c/console
Changed:
Using 1.3.xx or higher, zftape quits working
Solution:
Get the latest zftape from your favorite linux ftp site
Changed:
Hylafax-v3.0pl0 stops working due to fifo changes in 1.3.81
Solution:
The new named pipe behavior also causes problems with Hylafax. If
you're running the hylafax daemon, it will just keep eating up CPU time
until you have no idle time free. To fix this, edit port.h included
with the Hylafax distribution and change the line
CONFIG_OPENFIFO="O_RDONLY"
to
CONFIG_OPENFIFO="O_RDWR"
Changed:
Cal will think that the month is (null) with libc-5.2.18 or later
Solution:
Recompile cal from the sources
Changed:
tcsh Prints weird errors about free and such
Solution:
The fix is to put
#define SYSMALLOC
in config_f.h and recompile tcsh.
Changed:
Make no longer works
Solution:
Read the release notes that come with the libc that you upgraded
to, or get the latest libc AND release notes from
ftp.nether.net:/linux/libc-ELF or from
ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/GCC
Get a patched make from
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/devel/make/make-3.74.patched.tar.gz
Changed:
IPFW/Ip Accounting tools no longer work, and arp -a doesn't show all
the arp entries in /proc/net/arp
Solution:
Get the new net-tools, and ipfw tools:
ftp.inka.de:/pub/comp/Linux/networking/net-tools And
ftp://ftp.xos.nl/pub/linux/ipfwadm
Changed:
Upgrade of sound driver causes vplay to bomb with "Invalid audio buffers
size 1024"
Solution:
Get a new version of sndkit from
ftp://ftp.best.com/pub/front/tasd (snd-util-3.5.tar.gz as of this writing).
Changed:
xntpd initilaziton changed, causes xntpd to not work with newer kernels
(1.3.60+)
Solution:
Get the latest version of xntpd from
ftp://louie.udel.edu/pub/ntp