Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:14:07 -0600 From: "Nikolas Britton" <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "Jayesh Jayan" <jayesh.freebsdlist@gmail.com> Cc: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading Freebsd 5.4 release to 5.4 stable Message-ID: <ef10de9a0602231214o44c28384i6b0fec409575b181@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <e8ecf3c00602230815v55d3c1a4k10b0b43cc66c3c1f@mail.gmail.com> References: <e8ecf3c00602230650y549cdb95gc08208834f409855@mail.gmail.com> <200602231526.k1NFQoPd006497@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <e8ecf3c00602230815v55d3c1a4k10b0b43cc66c3c1f@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2/23/06, Jayesh Jayan <jayesh.freebsdlist@gmail.com> wrote: > All are Dell Poweredge servers with identical specification. > > I did check the message logs an couldn't find any problem > > What are the other aspects which I need to check so as to find a solution= . > I've had FreeBSD 5.4 randomly reboot on high quality hardware... Intel made board, Intel chipset, Intel CPU, Intel approved RAM, and a Beefy 550W Fortron active PFC power supply. In hindsight, as I sit here running 6.0-RELEASE and 6.1-PRERELEASE on my systems, the FreeBSD 5.x series was slow and buggy as hell. I don't fault the developers or the release engineering team, they did the best they could with a system that needed to be massively reworked to stay relevant. Anyways, After FreeBSD 5.5 is release the 5.x series will be officially put down, like a rabid dog and we will deny that it ever existed, like Netscape 5 :-). This means that you have two options, upgrade to 6.x or upgrade to 6.x. If It were up to me then I would just skip 6.0-RELEASE and go straight to 6.1-PRERELEASE (RELENG_6), then cvsup to RELENG_6_1 when it's officially released. Where possible I would wipe the system and install a fresh copy, if not possible then I would do a cvsup upgrade. Be sure to run a 'mergemaster -p' and then when you run the standard mergemaster don't blindly hit "i" because at some point in the stage it will ask you to install a new version of passwd and group. -- BSD Podcasts @ http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/
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