From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Dec 13 19:37:54 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 C3D3516A4CF for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 19:37:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.mho.com (smtp.mho.net [64.58.4.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DE6A543DBB for ; Sat, 13 Dec 2003 19:35:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 28744 invoked by uid 1002); 14 Dec 2003 03:35:28 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freebsd.org) (64.58.1.252) by smtp.mho.net with SMTP; 14 Dec 2003 03:35:28 -0000 Message-ID: <3FDBDA30.6010101@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 20:34:08 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031103 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: HEADS UP: Status of the 5.2 release 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: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 03:37:54 -0000 All, As I mentioned yesterday, we have a serious show-stopper for the 5.2 release. Jeff Roberson and Doug White did some good diagnosis work a few nights ago, but we are still without a fix. We cannot cut 5.2 until this gets resolved. I know that this is the end of the year and everyone has deadlines, family, travel, etc, but we really need some more eyes on this. To recap, a panic happens from sysinstall while unpacking the bin distribution. It is most readily created by enabling SoftUpdates on the root partition, but there are reports that SU is not a required factor. The panic originates in the fsync codepath and ends with a corrupt mutex. This is discussed on the freebsd-current@ mailing under the subject of "HAVE TRACE & DDB Re: FreeBSD 5.2-RC1 released". Any help is appreciated. Thanks, The Release Engineering Team