From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 2 21:45:20 2004 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 B34FF16A4CE for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 21:45:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp1.server.rpi.edu (smtp1.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 643C943D53 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 21:45:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp1.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id i92LjJrw014687; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 17:45:19 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: References: <20041002200901.GA53162@xor.obsecurity.org> Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 17:45:18 -0400 To: Sascha Schumann From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Conclusion of thread "Deadlocks with recent SMP current"? 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, 02 Oct 2004 21:45:20 -0000 At 10:49 PM +0200 10/2/04, Sascha Schumann wrote: >>Yes, this is believed to have been resolved in 5.3. > > Good to hear. Many issues have been resolved in the 5.x branch, especially in the last month or so. So, I would trust 5.3-beta7 (which should be appearing this weekend, I think) much more than 5.2.1. > I would rather downgrade to 5.1 (because I know it works > reliably on this piece of equipment), but unfortunately, > somewhere during "make installworld", the install binary > starts to segfault. We don't really support "compiling into a previous version". I can understand if you wanted to stick with 5.1, but if you are starting at 5.2.1 then you're probably going to have to install from the original 5.1 CD's. You are bound to run into problems trying to do build and install a 5.1 world from a 5.2 world, and we are not going to fix those problems because at least some of those fixes would have to be *in* the 5.1-world, and there is no way we are going to spend time on that instead of 5.3-(soon-to-be-)stable. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu