From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 12 22:44:57 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2963E5EB; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:44:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfg@tristatelogic.com) Received: from outgoing.tristatelogic.com (segfault.tristatelogic.com [69.62.255.118]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E91B08FC0A; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:44:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from segfault-nmh-helo.tristatelogic.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by segfault.tristatelogic.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A06A5081D; Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:44:56 -0800 (PST) To: Adrian Chadd Subject: Re: Syslog-ng weirdness on 9.1-RELEASE In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:44:56 -0800 Message-ID: <43868.1355352296@tristatelogic.com> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 22:44:57 -0000 In message , Adrian Chadd wrote: >On 12 December 2012 14:04, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> From where I am sitting, the freebsd web site is still only offering >> version 9.1-RC3. > >The images have to be pushed out to ftp-master and over to the mirrors >before the release announcement goes out. OK. I understand now. >Now, we've had to pull images at the last minute due to QA/testing >issues; hence why we don't announce that images are available once >they're uploaded. otherwise you may install an image that is actually >pulled and replaced before the release.. I understand. Anyway, this is a Good Thing... that you pulled back the release. Perhaps it will give some time to address ANOTHER bug that I think might be considered critical by some. Am I the only one for whom trying to install from a burnt 9.1-RC3 CD results in multiple irrecoverable READ ERRORS on the CD? At first when this happened I thought that I had just gotten a bad CD (media) so I burnt another and then got the exact same errors. I got those errors when trying to install from the 9.1-RC3 CD while using _three_ different CD/DVD/BluRay drives on _two_ different systems. In one of these three cases, the errors... which were limited to a half dozen or so in the other test cases... became an infinite loop of the same CD read error being reported to the console over and over and over again endlessly. In the two cases where there was just a sequence of a half dozen or so of these CD read errors (at one specific point in the install process) the install process _did_ seem to complete, despite the CD read errors reported on the console, but with one of the three CD/DVD drives I used to simply try to do a 9.1(-RC3) install, as I say, the thing when into an infinite loop of printing CD read errors and thus the install could not even be completed when using that particular CD/DVD drive. (And the drive in question is really _not_ that old, and continues to work well for everything else I ask it to do.) So, am I the only one on the planet who still installs FreeBSD the old- fashioned way, i.e. from an actual physical CD? That's the only plausible explanation that I can think of for why nobody (else) noticed this apparently serious problem in the release. Regards, rfg P.S. I am just going to download the install CD ISO for 9.0-RELEASE now and see if the same thing happens with that.