From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 29 07:11:57 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF7F116A4CE for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 07:11:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from king.mcs.drexel.edu (king.mcs.drexel.edu [129.25.6.170]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41D2043F93 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 07:11:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jsmith@drexel.edu) Received: from vorpal.mcs.drexel.edu (vorpal.mcs.drexel.edu [129.25.6.250]) by king.mcs.drexel.edu (8.12.9/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hATFBrBL006852 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 10:11:55 -0500 (EST) Received: from drexel.edu (vorpal.mcs.drexel.edu [129.25.6.250]) hATFBmOH043582 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2003 10:11:48 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jsmith@drexel.edu) Message-ID: <3FC8B734.6020400@drexel.edu> Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 10:11:48 -0500 From: Justin Smith User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031016 Thunderbird/0.3 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Upgrade experience 5.1p10->5.2 Beta X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 15:11:58 -0000 First I tried making world and kernel from the cvsup'ed standard supfile. This went OK. Then I did installkernel and installworld (in that order) and the second step crashed with messages that shared libraries were missing. (It's as if it installed some files before installing the shared libraries they needed). I was able to reboot and manually copy over many of the shared libraries from /usr/obj/usr/src/lib to /usr/lib and this got rid of the complaints. Then, I tried running make installworld again, just to be sure everything got installed. This went for about 20 minutes and crashed with gencat command not found. Manually copying this over to /usr/bin (and manually copying all of the shared libraries again, because they would be missing after the crashed make installworld) didn't solve this problem. Odd, since the old system had a gencat command too. Finally, I just burned a CD with the 5.2 beta mini-install (using Slackware Linux...). I ran upgrade and everything seems OK. One problem: my Nvidia GEForce 2 MX card no longer works (of course, I reinstalled the nvidia kernel driver). It has the same problem it had more than a month ago when I was briefly tracking current: attempting to use it reboots the machine. I type 'xinit' and see the power-on self test screen for the motherboard appears. No error messages, etc. I vaguely recall that I solved this the last time by setting parameters in the bootloader that showed the AGP interface down. After doing that, I could run X windows but any OpenGL (OpenUniverse, Celestia) rebooted the machine. Questions: 1. Will the AGP performance be brought up to the level of 5.1p10 before 5.2 is released (so I don't have to slow the AGP interface and can do OpenGL)? 2. Why does the system fail in such an non-robust and uninformative fashion? Why no error messages?