From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 24 16:17:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA14731 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 16:17:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA14725 for ; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 16:17:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA19401; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 16:16:50 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr01.primenet.com(206.165.6.201) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd019362; Sat Oct 24 16:16:47 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA29528; Sat, 24 Oct 1998 16:16:29 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199810242316.QAA29528@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: 3.0 installation problems To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 23:16:29 +0000 (GMT) Cc: obrien@NUXI.com, mike@smith.net.au, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199810242259.PAA25534@dingo.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Oct 24, 98 03:59:33 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > The 'adding route' freeze irritates the *&^%( out of me. There are > > > several different things that can go wrong at this point and there's no > > > easy way to tell which one it is. > > > > Is there *ANY* way to debug this? I never had this problem this problem > > in 2.2.5 days. But now I get it for *every* install of 2.2.7 or 3.0. > > I'm seeing "hangs" upto 5 minutes. > > Debugging it is relatively straightforward; build yourself a copy of > sysinstall (cd src/release/sysinstall; make), then run it. You can > experiment with taking various interfaces down before you start it, > reboot and come up single-user, etc. > > If you can nail this one, there'll be plenty of Very Happy people. On a potentially related not, we have one Cyrix based system at work that occasionally "loses" its default route for no reason that we have been able to determine. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message