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From: zaphod@deepthot.UUCP (millions of atoms of Lance)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: hp9000 ser. 500 hpux
Message-ID: <1021@deepthot.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 88 14:05:20 GMT
References: <987@maccs.UUCP> <1018@deepthot.UUCP> <191@bnr-vpa.UUCP>
Reply-To: zaphod@deepthot.UUCP (millions of atoms of Lance)
Organization: UWO CS, London Canada
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>In article <1018@deepthot.UUCP> zaphod@deepthot.UUCP writes:
>>    I have hands on experience with 5.2's bugs.
>

In article <191@bnr-vpa.UUCP> bruce@bnr-vpa.UUCP (Bruce Townsend) writes:
> ...   Could you please elaborate on the nature of
>the bugs introduced by 5.2 ...

apparently a new "has the file system been checked since last change"
flag was added to the super-block (i don't have the HP reference to this
near me)  and the first indication of weirdness is that our 7935 would
not mount at boot time.  After a fsck on the device it would mount.


a lot of the /usr/contrib/bin progs would not work, such as
	users (mem fault and core dump)
	dir (core dump)
	catman -w (core dump)
	fortune (hang)
	adventure (hang)

now, granted, the  last two do not generate a major crisis, but since
nearly every user i've met has fortune in their .login/.profile, they
would all "get stuck" when they tried to log in. sigh.

there were more problems, but i am sure that you get the idea, for a while
it seemed that half the world was hanging and half the world core dumping.

this is why, as i stated in my first posting, that our software rep.
advised all his customers to NOT use 5.2, and thus why I feel that in all
respects, HP has frozen at 5.1 not 5.2.
-- 
humbly yours,  Lance Bailey 
               Univ. Western Ontario         |   Robarts Research Institute
               Dept. of Computer Science     |   Clinical Trials Unit
               Graduate Studies              |   PO Box 5015
               London, Canada                |   London, Canada
               N6A 5B7                       |   N6A 5K8

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