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- From: qx@shire.math.columbia.edu (Qi Xia)
- Subject: Re: How to upgrade to pl5?
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- Organization: Mathematics Department, Columbia University
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 21:51:13 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Nov21.215113.15697@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
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- In article <1996@lysator.liu.se>, Jan Lien wrote
- >I originally downloaded linux 0.97 and got it working from my hard
- >disk, without much problems. I have upgraded to 0.98 pl1, by
- >compiling it myself, and that works too. Now I have tried upgrading
- >to 0.98pl4 and 0.98pl5, but with no success. I can recompile linux
- >0.98-5 with no problems, when I boot with 0.98-1. I boot from
- >floppy, so there is no lilo or shoelace or so involved.
- >
- >The problems start when I boot with 0.98-5. I can log in ok, but:
- >
- >- I can not compile anything. I use emacs 18.59 (Rick's version
- >.........
- >- mount does not work. I use mount from HJ Lu root disk. It says
- >.........
- >What is the recommended way to upgrade from one version to another?
- >Must I do: repartition my hard disk, and install everything from
- >pre-prepared root floppy disks again?
-
- I had the similar experience. In my case, bash broken.
- At first it seemed that make doesn't work properly.
- I applied Evans' one line patch. Instead dumping core, 0.98.5 reports
- which program write to code space. First bash was caught, then a
- couple of others. I ftped bash from prep.ai.mit.edu, compiled with
- patched 0.98.5. It works fine as a good citizen. bash doesn't been
- compiled "out of box". One need modify many places, basicly, some
- comflict definitions. One thing is crutial. Comment out initiation
- of sys_siglist[]. This is what commit crime. After install newly made
- bash, 0.98.5 doesn't complain much. When a couple of other one
- recompiled, 0.98.5 seem happy. I will switch back to official 0.98.5
- after a little more testing.
-
- If you need patch for bash, send me email. Here is Evens' patch.
- [Evans' patch (Doug Evans, dje@sspiff.cygnus.com)]--------------------
-
- *** memory.c= Tue Nov 17 19:23:22 1992
- --- memory.c Wed Nov 18 08:08:39 1992
- ***************
- *** 467,473 ****
- if (tsk == current && tsk->executable && CODE_SPACE(address, current)) {
- /* don't send SIGSEGV when in kernel or v86 mode */
- if (user_esp)
- ! send_sig(SIGSEGV, tsk, 1);
- /* Note that we still do the copy-on-write: if the process catches
- * SIGSEGV we want things to work..
- */
- --- 467,473 ----
- if (tsk == current && tsk->executable && CODE_SPACE(address, current)) {
- /* don't send SIGSEGV when in kernel or v86 mode */
- if (user_esp)
- ! printk("%s writes to code space\n", tsk->comm);
- /* Note that we still do the copy-on-write: if the process catches
- * SIGSEGV we want things to work..
- */
-
- --
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