Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 17:08:30 -0400 (EDT) From: Scott "Tuc" Ellentuch at T-B-O-H <ml@t-b-o-h.net> To: kris@obsecurity.org (Kris Kennaway) Cc: K?vesd?n G?bor <gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu>, Scott Tuc Ellentuch at T-B-O-H <ml@t-b-o-h.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Possible to go from 5.5 to 5.4? Message-ID: <200606162108.k5GL8UuB004823@himinbjorg.tucs-beachin-obx-house.com> In-Reply-To: <20060616204445.GB95408@xor.obsecurity.org>
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> On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 04:41:35PM -0400, Scott Tuc Ellentuch at T-B-O-H wr= > ote: > > > On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 09:39:27PM +0200, K?vesd?n G?bor wrote: > > > > Tuc wrote: > > > > >Hi, > > > > > > > > > > I recently upgraded from 5.4 to 5.5, and now if I leave it in X= > for=3D > > > a > > > > >few minutes it ends up locking up, usually when the screen blanks on > > > > >its own. I wanted to go backwards to see if that behaviour goes away. > > > > > > > > > > I wasn't sure if there was a risk doing this. > > > > > > > > > >Thanks, Tuc > > > > > > > > > > =3D20 > > > > Have you tried recompiling X? That might help. Take a look at=3D20 > > > > sysutils/portupgrade, if you haven't used that before. I think going= > =3D20 > > > > backward is unwise, there must be a better way. > > >=20 > > > Also make sure you recompile any kernel modules you might be using. > > > The most likely one would be the nvidia driver. > > >=20 > > I had upgraded the nvidia one at the same time since I knew it=20 > > needed to be rebuilt. > > In what order did you do this? Since you are using the module, it's > still the #1 suspect. > 1) cvsup -g -L 2 ./stable-supfile &&(cd /usr/src;make buildworld) && (cd /usr/src;m ake buildkernel KERNCONF=HIMINBJORG53) echo "Press ENTER to install kernel" read c (cd /usr/src;make installkernel KERNCONF=HIMINBJORG53) echo "Need to reboot" stable-supfile : *default host=cvsup2.freebsd.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_5 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all 2) Reboot 3) echo "Press ENTER to mergemaster" read a mergemaster -p echo "Press ENTER to installworld" read b (cd /usr/src;make installworld) echo "Press ENTER to mergemaster" read c mergemaster echo "REBOOT" 4) Reboot 5) cvsup -g -L 2 -h `fastest_cvsup -c us -Q` ./ports-supfile (cd /usr/ports;make fetchindex) pkg_version -l '<' -v > not.txt more not.txt ports-supfile: *default host=cvsup11.freebsd.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix ports-all 6) portupgrade -Ri of anything that was xorg*, nvidia* 7) Reboot 8) startx, do work for a few hours, stop working for a little while, come back and there is nothing on the screen, and I can't get it to do anything, even ctrl-alt-backspace 9) Power off, reboot, happens again like in 8, power off, reboot, happens again like in 8 10) run portdowngrade against nvidia to the previous version 11) reboot, happens again like in 8 12) Post to the newsgroup 12+1) Steps 1-4 again 14) Reply to this email. ;) Tuc
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