As others have noted, the date on your fossil is suspect. It looks like you've got other issues going on. Beyond, that, however, you say the fossil exists, but then "If I compiled fossil and now...", with some changed behavior. What happened here? You also skipped over the question of what 'date' on your system returns.
// The real problem is this is the official plan9.iso CD, with the default // installation, then other people will have the same problem. True as far as it goes, but we don't know what the problem is yet. I suspect the issue is simply that you're trying to build the kernels without the prerequisites in place, which (if anything) would make this mostly a documentation bug (although I don't offhand have a good idea where to document this). Anthony
