CFT/HEADS-UP: linux 2.6.16 emulation

[Scott Robbins]

On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 10:10:06AM +0100, Divacky Roman wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:22:53AM +0300, Boris Samorodov wrote:
> > On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:49:26 +0100 Divacky Roman wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 05:07:23PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
> > 
> > > > today I committed the last fixes for the showstopper problems (panics)
> > > > in the linux 2.6.16 emulation. I intend to switch the default version
> > > > to 2.6.16 on i386 "soon" (see below), so please help testing it.
> > 
> > > to be more precise.. we want testing on -current on i386...
> > > any other report is useles. except for reports from p4 linuxulator
> > > branch on 2.6/amd64.. 

I don't use too many Linux applications, however acroread worked without
problem.  My linux-opera seemed to work without problems, however, after
awhile, I noticed that each time I closed it, it was leaving a zombied
process, coming from  parent PID 1.   

Therefore, (as I hadn't noticed this in the beginning) one day it seemed
to be taking a long time to open--doing a pgrep opera showed about 20-25
zombied PIDS.  When I started watching for it, I realized that every
time  I opened, then closed it, it would leave one and sometimes two
zombied PIDs.

(I sent a quick post about this to emulation, but I haven't seen it
yet.)

Changing the sysctl compat.linux.osrelease back to 2.4.2 fixed the problem.  
This is on a recently built CURRENT.

uname -a

FreeBSD mail.scottro.net 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #0: Thu Jan 25
20:30:57 EST 2007     scottro at mail.scottro.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/S11  i386

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