From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Mar 22 11:47:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B6DA37B71C for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:47:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from zeppo.feral.com (IDENT:mjacob@zeppo [192.67.166.71]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA15810; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:47:02 -0800 Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 11:46:58 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Jordan Hubbard Cc: gallatin@cs.duke.edu, wkb@freebie.demon.nl, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Rawhide still broken on 4.3beta In-Reply-To: <20010322114157I.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote: > > 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. :) Cool. For a serial install, where's vty2? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message