From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 9 15:38:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12A8B16A4B3 for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 15:38:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp2.server.rpi.edu (smtp2.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 302EA43FAF for ; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 15:38:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp2.server.rpi.edu (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h99McT8j016892; Thu, 9 Oct 2003 18:38:29 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <32EEB28BC317EE4AB4A00685BA7266A301ADD962@webacct.nt.cetlink.net> References: <32EEB28BC317EE4AB4A00685BA7266A301ADD962@webacct.nt.cetlink.net> Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 18:38:28 -0400 To: "Jeffrey Wheat" , "Kris Kennaway" From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Latest "stable" fixes are unstable X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 22:38:35 -0000 At 4:14 PM -0400 10/9/03, Jeffrey Wheat wrote: > > Apologies for being so vague... All that happens >on the 4.8(4.9RC) servers is they suddenly reboot without >leaving anything in the log files at all, so it is very >difficult to provide more details on the crash. In the case of the 4.9 systems, are you VERY up-to-date? There were a few changes recently made which did cause problems for some users, but it should be true that all of those are now fixed. You'd pretty much want to be running *today's* sources to get all those. I think it should be telling you that the system name is 4.9-RC2 if it has (what we think are) all the fixes. (I might be wrong on that, I haven't actually rebuilt my 4.x machine yet this week). >On the 5.0 servers, I get page faults. I am going to >enable crash dumps on these servers now. I'm having some odd problems with 5.x-current right now, but I haven't been able to figure out what it is yet. In my case, it *might* still be a hardware problem, though it seems odd that I have zero trouble with 4.9 on the same hardware (and my problems with 5.x didn't start until this September). For me, the problem with the 5.x is that the machine completely locks up, which makes it a real hassle. It is also true that a week (or two?) ago there were changes to 5.x which caused problems for many people. Again, make sure you're up-to-the-minute with what you're running. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu