The following reply was made to PR kern/30008; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nick Hudson <skrll@netbsd.org>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/30008
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:23:16 +0100

 On Wednesday 14 September 2005 15:59, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR kern/30008; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >
 > From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
 > To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
 > Cc: juan@xtrarom.org
 > Subject: Re: kern/30008
 > Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 10:58:42 -0400
 >
 >  It may, in fact, be pkg-related.  In an email message
 >  http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2005/07/07/0010.html
 >  Courten Spencer supplied a fix involving
 >  /usr/pkg/emul/linux/etc/opt/gnome/gtk-2.0/gdk-pixbuf.loaders
 >  being garbled.  I've used this procedure successfully on -current and
 >  3.0beta.
 
 
 The following change to sys/arch/i386/include/vmparam.h causes the problem.
 
 revision 1.58
 date: 2005/01/10 05:34:51;  author: mycroft;  state: Exp;  lines: +2 -4
 Now that countless UVM bugs have been fixed, enable "topdown" memory
 allocation by default.
 
 Now to work out the fix.
 
 Nick