From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 17 20:37:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8CE516A4CF; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:37:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from sizone.org (mortar.sizone.org [65.126.154.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A75F43D1D; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 20:37:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dgilbert@daveg.ca) Received: by sizone.org (Postfix, from userid 66) id E5BBD308A5; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 23:37:57 -0500 (EST) Received: by canoe.dclg.ca (Postfix, from userid 101) id 7550F1D2071; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 23:37:54 -0500 (EST) From: David Gilbert MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16434.60449.640069.994265@canoe.dclg.ca> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 23:37:53 -0500 To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey In-Reply-To: <20040218000611.GC64477@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20040218000611.GC64477@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 14) "Reasonable Discussion" XEmacs Lucid cc: Andrew Rutherford cc: FreeBSD current users Subject: Soft updates problems with 5.2.1-RC1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 04:37:58 -0000 I was just replying to this message when my system crashed again. >>>>> "Greg" == Greg Lehey writes: Greg> A couple of days ago, a large company here in Adelaide installed Greg> 5.2.1-RC1 on their main Internet gateway :-( They're having Greg> problems, which I'm looking at in conjunction with Andrew Greg> Rutherford (copied). Looking for the problems is complicated by Greg> the fact that the machine has to be kept running. I have -CURRENT on my laptop and I've found that rather recently that filesystem stress like building multiple ports concurrently ... especially if one of them is openoffice ... often crashes the machine or induces manual-fsck-needing filesystem repair. Unfortunately, I don't have anything more concrete, or I would have posted. Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================