Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 00:00:15 -0800 From: Ross Penner <ross.penner@gmail.com> To: Markus Hitter <mah@jump-ing.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: powerd causing crash on Mini-ITX EN1200 Message-ID: <f80199c40903030000g2fba7e57g91d06a498b6c2f04@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <F5A1D5F3-5DBE-453D-8FEC-1AD034803922@jump-ing.de> References: <f80199c40902260944q430b7faavd9fc7891c6ecb7b0@mail.gmail.com> <F5A1D5F3-5DBE-453D-8FEC-1AD034803922@jump-ing.de>
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On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Markus Hitter <mah@jump-ing.de> 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?
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