From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 31 15:36:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org 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 DFB6016A41F for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:36:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57CF543D46 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:36:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from [192.168.254.11] (junior.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j9VFafXF040899; Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:36:41 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <43663A0A.4040608@samsco.org> Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:36:42 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050615 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marc Olzheim References: <436116D3.908@samsco.org> <20051031151809.GA83253@stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <20051031151809.GA83253@stack.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=3.8 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP! 6.0-RELEASE coming X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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, 31 Oct 2005 15:36:44 -0000 Marc Olzheim wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 12:05:07PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > >> Everyone is still welcome to update their sources on the RELENG_6_0 >> branch and provide feedback for the next 48 hours or so. The release >> will likely be announced by the end of the weekend or early next >> week, at the latest. > > > Anyone having updates for my showstopper page, please, notify me... > > http://www.stack.nl/%7Emarcolz/FreeBSD/showstoppers.html > > We are still installing new servers with 4.x, because I haven't seen a > really stable FreeBSD-stable release since... This includes current > RELENG_6_0. > > Marc The pty problem is likely a side effect of known locking problems with ttys and ptys in general. This probably the weakest part of the kernel right now and I don't know of a good work-around for apps that use these extensively. That said, there doesn't seem to be much of a problem with casual use; I use screen(1) quite a bit on my production 6.0-RC mailserver+firewall. Is the 'VM/VFS overruns' item still a problem? That was likely fixed a couple of months ago. If not then it's definitely something that I'll track for the 6.1 release. The ACPI+sio problem is known. I have a motherboard with a similar problem, though a different brand than yours. I solved it by removing the ACPI attachment from the sio code. The better solution is to allow loader hints to override ACPI hints. I tried talking to John Baldwin about this but didn't get much of a response. I haven't seen ktrace discussed much. Peter Edwards is welcome to pass his patch around some more and commit it if he wants. GDB problems are numerous, and what we really need is for someone with interest in it to spend some quality time on it. Scott