Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 23:38:05 -0400 From: Chris Pepper <pepper@reppep.com> To: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsd.org> Cc: qa@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.9 RC1 (i386) now available Message-ID: <p06100304bb9e9e078823@[66.92.104.201]> In-Reply-To: <20030929151905.GD3743@freebsdmall.com> References: <20030929151905.GD3743@freebsdmall.com>
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At 8:19 AM -0700 2003/09/29, Murray Stokely wrote: >Not all FTP sites have the first release candidate, but it is at least >available from ftp.freebsd.org. Please download and install this >candidate and help us find bugs BEFORE we call it 4.9-RELEASE. > >ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RC1 >ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.9-RC1-i386-disc1.iso > >We are particularly interested in having people test this release >candidate on a heavily loaded system, or on large memory machines, so >that the stability of the PAE merge can be tested. I did a serial install on an HP Pavilion 7915 (a 1.1GHz Celeron I started with 4.5-RELEASE on, and have done dozens of installs on although never before via the serial port), and ended up with a scrambled boot block. When I choose vt100 (option #2), the display is scrambled (lines wrap, option titles shift up and down when using the arrows, and get out of sync with the descriptions on the right side). With ANSI (option #1), I couldn't move into the main options area -- all 4 arrows, as well as tab, ask me if I really wanted to abort, and there's no visible way to do anything but exit. Anyway, I thought I accepted the default BootMgr option (under vt100 mode), and I was definitely using it under 4.9-PRE before running sysinstall, but when I was done F2 wouldn't start FreeBSD (off disk2s2a -- F1 started Windows okay, but that's not useful). I was able to boot the 4.9RC1 CD, and then load and boot the kernel off disk2s2a. When trying a more complete install via the PS/2 keyboard and onboard video, I got an error that rep-gtk2-0.17_2,1 was a dependency but couldn't be found, and sawfish2-1.3_3,2 aborted install with error 1. The sawfish error told me to check the debug screen for more info, but didn't say how to do so. I tried cycling through consoles; Ctl-Alt-F2 showed the rep-gtk2 error but no sawfish error; F4 showed a prompt, and F1 brought me back to the installer, but F3 (as well as F5 and above) just beeped, without showing the display. Long term, the error mentioning the debug screen should say how to get there. Similar failure on openldap-client-2.1.22 (error 1); apparently there's a conflict with openldap-client-2.0.27, already installed as a dependency for something else (according to the output on F2). Additional unspecified errors on kdelibs-3.1.3, & kdeaddons-3.1.4. At this point, it cycled around through the same openldap & kde errors several times (5 full rounds or so), before continuing back to the main sysinstall menu. When I tried to configure XFree86 Desktop, and selected KDE, I got the same openldap & kde* errors... Despite all this, the non-serial install completed and rebooted into F2 FreeBSD successfully. I'll repeat the serial install tomorrow, to see if I can reproduce the broken boot manager behavior. Regards, Chris Pepper -- Chris Pepper: <http://www.reppep.com/~pepper/>; Rockefeller University: <http://www.rockefeller.edu/>;
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