From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 23 20:14:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 65E3B16A420 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:14:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2B5743D46 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:14:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nikolas.britton@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id t5so107294wxc for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:14:07 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=c289dFkgiVRQnyc9VEbFUY747XrT1irs2Hy3vE0E0BYSUrgJImbrCZjXSEcWhR9iJfwyrbrN1YdvJeKhnVJYIQJI1XKyWIDkSroaLTywQ8e7JGXZtyCc6qAp2KyFHm1CPx20SfHqkpH8r0jjZABFUXxe4HQUfuuEpKiLdfaayrY= Received: by 10.70.66.2 with SMTP id o2mr2690207wxa; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:14:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.65.9 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:14:07 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:14:07 -0600 From: "Nikolas Britton" To: "Jayesh Jayan" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <200602231526.k1NFQoPd006497@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: Jerry McAllister , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading Freebsd 5.4 release to 5.4 stable 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: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:14:09 -0000 On 2/23/06, Jayesh Jayan 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/