From owner-freebsd-qa Sat Jan 26 18:36: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-qa@freebsd.org Received: from mao.stokely.org (mao.stokely.org [65.84.64.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD75937B400; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:35:52 -0800 (PST) Received: by mao.stokely.org (Postfix, from userid 2074) id CB3FE4B65D; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:35:46 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:35:46 -0800 From: Murray Stokely To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.org, re@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Installation failure [finally] seen with 4.5-RC3 Message-ID: <20020127023546.GA5153@freebsdmall.com> References: <47299.1012013659@winston.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47299.1012013659@winston.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/0E451F7D X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: E2CA 411D DD44 53FD BB4B 3CB5 B4D7 10A2 0E45 1F7D Sender: owner-freebsd-qa@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hey Jordan, Did you run some more installs on this piece of hardware? Without a more concrete failure case I don't think that it makes sense to delay the release. As it stands right now, we have very little to go on, so it's not very likely that delaying the release would help to track this down. - Murray On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 06:54:19PM -0800, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > This particular machine is surrounded by Macs. I don't have anything to plug > its serial port into. :-) > > - Jordan > > P.S. I suppose I could revive my Vaio. > > > On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > > > > Unfortunately, this one seems to be in the "heisenbug" category which > > > is why I didn't flag it as a show-stopper when it started getting > > <...> > > > I also believe it's actually a kernel panic or hard hang vs sysinstall > > > > if it's a kernel panic, wouldnt you see some indication thereof on the > > serial port? or is that sort of functionality not available in an install > > kernel? > > > > just my us$ 0.02.... > > > > johnu > > > > > - Jordan > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > > > > -- > > > > John L. Utz III > > john@utzweb.net > > > > Idiocy is the Impulse Function in the Convolution of Life > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-qa" in the body of the message