From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 3 08:00:16 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49167106567E for ; Tue, 3 Mar 2009 08:00:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ross.penner@gmail.com) Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com (yx-out-2324.google.com [74.125.44.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F39A38FC12 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 2009 08:00:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ross.penner@gmail.com) Received: by yx-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 31so1490728yxl.13 for ; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=3pc8cSyribcCsFbdyBHz6bw9LUDVMOWxDAHYoho/s3Y=; b=TkwTBmh8H6NPKRh0bzvyN8GNfo/wwNwsZOVPihKORqZDqY1PrkBWcJdMnD0bktxcFc JjW0if0rvx8YuNHKlBX4eEwDpBnGtkXq28ol3Z6tc+WQ20RZhvrZS0UvYMmse/VYYIOq hc6M/cdwRzmaplT5n9kJWBUX9/YJq6XyvSP+U= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=PJcxFnk8XfCWd5fLZKAXpZ121Q+DMXnjcRD8FqF6NmbGpvvX7KScU1IS5yXJYe7+Bq sauurQtSoqUAHRrCkuwdcp2wOlrnUDWZzAlloykkZo++BKvYIs5Jp+4bU82Oon3O9Jle OY/aeIBf2BpNjbnTilvPUSF4pchVQiCcDIhdM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.90.113.17 with SMTP id l17mr1526747agc.7.1236067215269; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:00:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 00:00:15 -0800 Message-ID: From: Ross Penner To: Markus Hitter Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: powerd causing crash on Mini-ITX EN1200 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: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:00:18 -0000 On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Markus Hitter wrote: > > Am 26.02.2009 um 18:44 schrieb Ross Penner: > >> When I enable powerd, it is only but a matter of time before my >> machine will lock up completely. I've had this problem since I've >> migrated to FreeBSD 7 from 6. FreeBSD 6 never seemed to have any >> problems. > > As FreeBSD Stable is a continuous development, you have good chances to > narrow down the culprit by bisecting. The assumption is, one single SVN > commit broke your functionality and you just have to find out which one. > > Get sources from SVN, then switch to the earliest Stable/7 to confirm your > assumption ("it broke with 7"). If it works, check out a few thousand SVN > revisions later, try again. If it doesn't work, switch to an earlier > revision, a late Stable/6. Each step cuts the number of SVN revisions in > question in half, after some 10 or 12 iterations you're down to a single > revision. > > Having a single revision pretty much directly points you to what the problem > is. This helps developers very much and with some luck you can reverse-apply > this change to a more recent set of the sources. > > > MarKus > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter > http://www.jump-ing.de/ Thanks for the idea! is downgrading possible or will I have to reinstall?