From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 2 01:17:31 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BE021065677 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2008 01:17:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mlobon@ig.com.br) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31F188FC13 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2008 01:17:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mlobon@ig.com.br) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h27so667644wxd.7 for ; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:17:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.101.17 with SMTP id y17mr10491436agb.82.1212369450224; Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:17:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lobo ( [189.70.35.133]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 39sm627504aga.0.2008.06.01.18.17.27 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:17:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Mario Lobo Organization: Digiart To: "Dominique Goncalves" Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2008 22:18:29 -0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200805311610.51979.mlobon@ig.com.br> <7daacbbe0805311405k2614a519p58c4d731c3f5ef1d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7daacbbe0805311405k2614a519p58c4d731c3f5ef1d@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200806012218.29795.mlobon@ig.com.br> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: downgrading /sys/src X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:17:31 -0000 On Saturday 31 May 2008 18:05:24 Dominique Goncalves wrote: > Hi, > > On 5/31/08, Mario Lobo wrote: > > This may sound wierd but let me explain why. > > > > On last may/26, I added a Sound Blaster Live to my machine and I wanted > > to activate the midi interface of the emu10kx driver. I know there were > > some memory and timming problems but I wanted to experiment. So I did a > > csup to 7_CURRENT (which is the tag I always use) then edited emu10kx to > > coment out the #if 0 that excludes the midi code. I took the oportunity > > to coment the drivers I did not need to make the kernel smaller. > > Recompiled and loaded emu10kx from loader.conf. the Kernel crashed rig= ht > > after the acpi_hpet driver load. But by loading emu10kx later, there w= as > > no crash and SB board worked fine. > > > > A hunch told me to save kernel.old so I moved it to kernel.good which i= s: > > FreeBSD lobo 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #1: Thu May 22 18:32:28 BRT > > 2008 root@lobo:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/LOBO i386 > > > > After that I went on to make some DVD backups with k3b which ALWAYS > > worked fine and now, after this upgrade, k3b keeps crashing without > > finishing. Software and device buffers usage behaved erratically, and > > even if it doesn't crash, it stops in around 30% with a write error. I > > lost a few DVDs, since I suspected the DVD+RW may have had something to > > do with the problem. I recompiled k3b (and the other ports around it) b= ut > > results were the same. > > > > Anyway, after several unsuccessful attempts to correct the problem by > > removing/re-adding kernel drivers, recompiles and even removing the SB > > board, I decided to move /boot/kernel to kernel.new, and copied > > kernel.good to kernel and voil=E1 ! Everything went back to normal and > > worked fine! > > > > What I want to do is to make a copy of my current /src/sys, revert it > > back to what it was in may/22 (kernel.good) and compare it with the > > current /src/sys to see what changed that provoked this behavior. I > > suspect of ata and memory handling changes but it's just a guess. I'd > > have to have both sources to compare. > > > > So my question is: How can I get my /src/sys back to what it was in > > may/22? can this be done? > > You could use the 'date=3D' option in your stable-supfile: > *default release=3Dcvs tag=3DRELENG_7 date=3D20080522000000 > > man 1 csup for more details > > Hope this helps > Thanks ! that did it !! but the date format should so: date=3D2008.05.22.00.00.00 I am going to dig in and see if I can find out what happened. =2D-=20 Mario Lobo http://www.mallavoodoo.com.br =46reeBSD since version 2.2.8 [not Pro-Audio.... YET!!] (99,7% winedows FRE= E)