From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 3 11:03:29 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 8A473106566B for ; Tue, 3 Mar 2009 11:03:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mah@jump-ing.de) Received: from mail.ud03.udmedia.de (ud03.udmedia.de [194.117.254.43]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8B088FC0C for ; Tue, 3 Mar 2009 11:03:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mah@jump-ing.de) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple; d=mail.ud03.udmedia.de; h= in-reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:message-id:cc: content-transfer-encoding:from:subject:date:to; q=dns/txt; s= beta; bh=l0y1yvHbL2+8ixJgFp+U1JKjm9uB7IqMqsV870dQjj4=; b=YiRNy9m UvK4bmdub67+s2YwgZqCEFrMP4dRYBP+7mN3PigITwVD+2e7LBJlz7wpvHpMNuCa qDt3W2VTGEqCCjUqzbKdyyIMYDZraghO2OnXCeUNO0w8rVfYGb1Y8GFHyaibHc0W 3s1OHNQbAmTRP3PxnjPcId6Ux4DCkxmEUpks= Received: (qmail 12460 invoked from network); 3 Mar 2009 12:03:24 +0100 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.0.0.50?) (ud03?291p1@78.43.167.77) by mail.ud03.udmedia.de with ESMTPA; 3 Mar 2009 12:03:24 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <6667FB2D-BBB5-4E1D-B08D-B31679E04595@jump-ing.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Markus Hitter Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 12:03:23 +0100 To: Ross Penner X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) 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 11:03:29 -0000 Am 03.03.2009 um 09:00 schrieb Ross Penner: > 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. > > Thanks for the idea! is downgrading possible or will I have to > reinstall? Downgrading is possible. "make buildkernel", "make buildworld", etc. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/