Hi Mark,

I've installed all the base, X11 base, and comp stuff along with one or two
packages such as joe, Fvwm and Mosaic. The system is mostly stable, but when
booting, during netstart, several pages with content like the following fly
through the display, interspersed with the commands in, and being executed by,
netstart.

	cmfs	f4, #0,0
	ldfl	f4, [r11, ~#0x034]
	ldfl	f4, [r11, ~#0x034]
	stfl	f4, [r13, -#0x00c]!
	ldfl	f4, [r11, ~#0x034]
	stfl	f4, [r13, -#0x00c]!
	000000000000000000000000000
	ldfl	f4, [r11, ~#0x034]
	stfl	f4, [r13, -#0x00c]!
	ldfl	f4, [r11, ~#0x034]
	cmfs	f4, #0,0
	ldfl	f4, [r11, ~#0x034]
	ldfl	f4, [r11, ~#0x034]
	stfl	f4, [r13, -#0x00c]!
	ldfl	f4, [r11, ~#0x034]
	stfl	f4, [r13, -#0x00c]!
	000000000000000000000000000

This happens so quickly that I'm not sure which entry in netstart triggers it -
I will investigate further. It is possible that I have a leftover from 1.2
somewhere on my system, as I have installed 1.3 over my old setup.

This behaviour stops before the login: prompt and then all seems to work well,
but occasionally when trying to start joe, it starts again and this time appears
on all virtual consoles, whether they are in use or not. The only way to stop
this is to su (every thing still works while the screen s doing it's thing) and
execute shutdown. You can then go back into multi user mode with no problem
(until the next time!).

When shutting down completely via shutdown, halt, the following messages appear:
	boot: howto=00000008 ffffffff cur_proc=f14d2600
	current_mask=0000b629	spl_mask=ffffffff
	ipl_bio=00108429 	ipl_net=00100420 \
		ipl_tty=0010420		ipl_clock=00000400 \
			ipl_imp=00100420
	spl_mask[0]= ffffffff	splsmask[0]=ffffffff	
	spl_mask[1]= ffffffff	splsmask[1]=00000006	
	spl_mask[2]= ffffffff	splsmask[2]=00000004	
	spl_mask[3]= 00108429	splsmask[3]=00000004
	spl_mask[4]= 00100420	splsmask[4]=00000004	
	spl_mask[5]= 00100420	splsmask[5]=00000000	
	spl_mask[6]= 00100420	splsmask[6]=00000000	
	spl_mask[7]= 00100420	splsmask[7]=00000000	
	spl_mask[8]= 00000420	splsmask[8]=00000000	
	spl_mask[9]= 00000400	splsmask[9]=00000000	
	spl_mask[10]= 00000400	splsmask[10]=00000000	
	spl_mask[11]= 00000000	splsmask[11]=00000000

Then the normal shutdown messages.

Just as an aside, does anyone know why tkdesk no longer seems to work?

regards,
Dave	
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