From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 27 12:23:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A4B816A4B3 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:23:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.covadmail.net (mx05.covadmail.net [63.65.120.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE3AD43FE1 for ; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:23:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from strick@covad.net) Received: (covad.net 11486 invoked from network); 27 Oct 2003 20:23:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ice.nodomain) (67.101.98.80) by sun-qmail04 with SMTP; 27 Oct 2003 20:23:34 -0000 Received: from ice.nodomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ice.nodomain (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h9RKNW9i000792; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:23:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@ice.nodomain) Received: (from dan@localhost) by ice.nodomain (8.12.8p1/8.12.8/Submit) id h9RKNWvR000791; Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:23:32 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 12:23:32 -0800 (PST) From: Dan Strick Message-Id: <200310272023.h9RKNWvR000791@ice.nodomain> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: dan@ice.nodomain Subject: Re: Final 4.9-RC (i386) available now, please help test. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:23:42 -0000 >> > RC4 includes the SATA and DRM fixes, along with a few other > panic-preventing bugfixes. If everything goes well we can release 4.9 > on Monday. > > Please help download and test before it's too late >> I downloaded the ISO image and used it to do a local network install. The initial installation went ok, but several of the 110 or so ports that I typically build failed this time. Technically the ports may not be part of the FreeBSD 4.9-release, but since a specific set is included in the distribution these errors may be of some interest: 1) /usr/ports/audio/mpg123: Building with "make WITH_NAS=yes WITH_ICONV=yes" failed because some referenced iconv header file was not already installed. The workaround is to install iconv before mpg123. 2) /usr/ports/audio/xmp: Installation generates and error message about not finding an xmms configuration file. The workaround seems to be to install xmms before xmp. 3) /usr/ports/games/cgoban: The compilation of net.c generates error messages about conflicting declarations of `butRnet_create' and `butRnet_destroy'. I have not attempted to debug this error. I don't know of any workaround. Everything else seemed ok, including the ICH5 SATA controller in native mode. I don't claim to have worked the system very hard. Dan Strick strick@covad.net