From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 10 05:43:15 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA27130 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 05:43:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.ucb.crimea.ua (relay.ucb.crimea.ua [212.110.138.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA26950 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 05:40:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ru@ucb.crimea.ua) Received: (from ru@localhost) by relay.ucb.crimea.ua (8.9.2/8.9.2/UCB) id PAA22075; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 15:38:35 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from ru) Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 15:38:35 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov To: "Brian J. McGovern" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spontaneous Reboots Message-ID: <19990210153835.A22049@ucb.crimea.ua> Mail-Followup-To: "Brian J. McGovern" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199902101332.IAA18723@spoon.beta.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.94.17i In-Reply-To: <199902101332.IAA18723@spoon.beta.com>; from Brian J. McGovern on Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 08:32:32AM -0500 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 08:32:32AM -0500, Brian J. McGovern wrote: > Just a thought I noticed in reading all the mail. It appears that most of the > people who upgraded from 2.2.x to 3.0-STABLE are the ones with the most > problems. People (like myself) who went to 3.0 on a clean install, and then > started tracking stable seem to be doing ok. I went so far as to build a > release of 3.0-STABLE, and install from that. I've had a days worth of uptime > with each of the versions, and haven't had a single problem with reboots > that people have been complaining about all along the upgrade path. > > Heck, I can even try to write to read only media (ie - a CD), and it just > comes back and complains ": Read-only file system". No panics on > the unmount, either. > > You may want to consider freshly clean install of -STABLE, or at least > upgrade to 3.0 before following the stable path. Might find it works better. > I also think I remember an email from Jordan saying (paraphrasing) that the > upgrade path is filled with pitfalls.... > There is no difference here. -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message