On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 10:14:28AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > I found that with the 0.9 installation, nvi crashed the kernel very > promptly. Maybe this only occurs when using the STI console. Solution: > using the extra packages section of the CD, install vim before > editing sources.list.
that's correct -- the bug only affected STI console. the right fix is to compile a new kernel :-) > Also, I found that I had to upgrade the kernel as the latest upgrades > won't work with the 0.9 one. The kernel will just panic at the end > of the boot process. Yeah -- glibc bug which when fixed exposed a kernel bug. -- Revolutions do not require corporate support.
