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- From: hcp@csx.cciw.ca (H.C. Pulley)
- Subject: Re: System Crashes with Ckermit
- Organization: Canada Centre for Inland Waters
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 18:04:36 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.180436.8394@csx.cciw.ca>
- References: <trumpet-user.2.0@pechter.ocpt.ccur.com> <9301202024@fcshome.UUCP>
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- In article <9301202024@fcshome.UUCP> fredex@fcshome.UUCP (fred smith) writes:
- >Bill Pechter (trumpet-user@pechter.ocpt.ccur.com) wrote:
- >: >I just installed the Gnu tools and the MWC driver development kit.
- >: >
- >: >Now I find the system crashes under the Ckermit that came with
- >: >Coherent as soon as I start a file receive.
- >
- >: Looks like it did it with the older Coherent 4.0.1 as well if I was in
- >: multiuser mode. <grin>
- >
- >: Geez, I just reloaded the whole thing to discover it never worked in
- >: multiuser mode at all. I'm going to rebuild ckermit and if it works
- >: in multiuser mode I'll upload to raven.alaska.edu
- >
- >I hate to be a wet blanket, but I'm using plain vanilla Coherent 4.0.1
- >without any updated kernels and the original distribution's executable
- >of Ckermit, and mine works fine! (well, I could find a thing or two to
- >complain about, but it doesn't crash!).
- >
- >The problem might well be some strange hardware/firmware incompatibility
- >in your system????
-
- I too had a bad Ckermit shipped to me. Apparently, there might have been a few
- disks sent out with old (bad) versions of the binary.
-
- Harry
-
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