From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Mar 22 11:42:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (winston.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.27.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D286637B71C for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:42:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) with ESMTP id f2MJfv089403; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:41:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) To: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Cc: wkb@freebie.demon.nl, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rawhide still broken on 4.3beta In-Reply-To: <15034.6537.992030.443414@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <15034.6537.992030.443414@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010322114157I.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:41:57 -0800 From: Jordan Hubbard X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 19 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I think that if it ever gets fixed, there will be a lot of rejoicing & > it will be hard to miss. Like there was when the "going nowhere with > my init" problem was finally fixed. Erm, just so this rumor doesn't spread too far, as the guy who "fixed" that problem let me just say right now that it was never fixed, it was simply papered over. :) What now happens is that libdisk(3) simply whines rather than failing where it used to, and the things it failed over were pretty severe like allocations failing or very unexpected events. This means that sysinstall on the alpha will see libdisk return now with data which isn't strictly guaranteed to be valid in some cases, such as the one which caused the "going nowhere" problem in the first place. Whether this will constitute a real problem or not remains to be seen. In the meantime, please keep an eye on your debugging screens (VTY2) and let me know if anything new and interesting shows up. :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message