Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 21:27:26 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Continuing Server Crash Saga! Message-ID: <20060323022724.GA50208@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <000701c64e12$c5666dc0$6501a8c0@GRANT> References: <000701c64e12$c5666dc0$6501a8c0@GRANT>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 07:43:08PM -0500, Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > > Re: my Dell PE 1850 crashes (freezes). > > After scouring the Buglists, I have found a few others who have servers > that were exhibiting exactly the same issues as mine. Random crashes on > reliable hardware, with not OS (FreeBSD 6.0) logs showing any issues. > > In FreeBSD 6.0 RELEASE, there seemed to be a QUOTA application bug. The > three people I talked to have eliminated the freezing problem by disabling > user and group disk QUOTA support. I have now disabled QUOTA on my system, > and will report back in 10 days. (5 is the magic number, 10 would be > reasonale to conclude success). > > I have been advised to upgrade to 6.1. Yes, this quota bug is fixed in 6.1. > I have never been very successful with upgrading a live system, so > generally I backup data and completely reinstall. > > I am hoping someone here will tell me upgrading from 6.0 to 6.1 would be a > trivial task, posing minimal danger, and perhaps point me to a decent > tutorial or how to ... It is pretty straightforward - see the documentation in the handbook, or just do an upgrade from the 6.1-beta4 CD. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEIgeLWry0BWjoQKURAvsWAJ4tWRRM57KTWuypVc+a3CDhDhFkDwCg17xo OvTqr9QEKTJyHZStElz1xi8= =4Qp2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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