--- Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 03:53:09PM +0000, THOMAS EDWARD HART wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've been running Robert Millan's GNU/Hurd image under Bochs > > (Version 1.4.1 on Windows). > > > > The system runs quite well; however, on one boot the system > > froze at the login prompt with this message from ext2fs.static: > > > > login> ext2fs.static: intr-msg.c:304: > > _hurd_intr_rpc_mach_msg: Assertion `m->header.msgh_id == > > msgid + 100' failed. > >
This error indicates that _hurd_intr_rpc_mach_msg did not get the message it was expecting back from something, probably the kernel. intr-msg.c is a generated file so if this is a race that bochs is able to trigger we may have many similar bugs. So, I'm curious, is intr-msg.c generated by mig? > > The error has only occurred once. The system usually starts > > up correctly. > > Does it happen the first time you boot it? In that case i guess you > can reproduce it by re-downloading the image. > > But it didn't happen to me (and a lot others), could you try with > the latest version of bochs? > > > Has anyone else experienced any similar errors? I'm > > wondering if this is some odd interaction between > > ext2fs.static and Bochs, or if this could be a bug in > > ext2fs.static (in which case I'll report this to Bug-Hurd). > > well, bochs emulation is not perfect. specialy when it comes > to hardware devices and bioses. but if you can't reproduce > it i doubt it can be helpful to the Hurd developers. > > -- > Robert Millan ===== James Morrison University of Waterloo Computer Science - Digital Hardware 2B http://hurd.dyndns.org Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
