From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 14 11:55: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [209.157.86.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E775F1502F for ; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:54:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon@apollo.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id LAA93753; Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:54:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 11:54:08 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <199903141954.LAA93753@apollo.backplane.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Checklist for testing new -4.x kernels ( -current ). Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Exceptions are made for people who really know what they are doing, verses only think that they know what they are doing :-) * Do not use any loadable modules, compile the needed modules into the kernel directly. To double check, run 'kldstat' after booting the system and make sure that only the kernel is listed. * Make sure to install the new boot blocks and new /boot directory from the latest source. * Large 'maxusers' kernel configurations ( > 128 ), or kernels with >= 512MB of ram have experienced instability in the past, be sure you are using the latest kernel and try lowering the maxusers paramater to 64 first, before reporting the crash. * If weird crashes occur with the splash screen, try disabling it. * If weird crashes occur during boot, try diasbling the parallel port stuff and see if that fixes the problem. * When reporting crashes, please include information on the machine's configuration including any special devices ( such as VN ) that you may be using, and your disk configuration ( df ), and the memory & device configuration ( dmesg ). * When reporting crashes that occur from testing -- for example, you are testing the system by running buildworlds, please include the exact test script / make / whatever that you are doing along with the system configuration info. * Make sure your systems are backed up. --- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message