From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Feb 16 12:52:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA24208 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 12:52:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from noao.edu (noao.edu [140.252.1.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA24074 for ; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 12:51:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grandi@noao.edu) Received: from mirfak.tuc.noao.edu (grandi@mirfak.tuc.noao.edu [140.252.1.9]) by noao.edu (8.8.8/8.8.7/SAG-02Dec97) with SMTP id NAA29710; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 13:51:28 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from grandi@noao.edu) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 13:51:27 -0700 (MST) From: Steve Grandi X-Sender: grandi@mirfak.tuc.noao.edu To: jef53313@bayou.uh.edu cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I need a strategy for making my STABLE installation stable In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Thanks, Jonathan for your response. Since I started having the crashes, I started updating the system sources via cvsup. So I am running an up-to-date kernel that has been upgraded since 2.2.5-RELEASE. I admit I haven't done a "make world" to rebuild all the utilities and such, though. I highly recommend, by the way, Jordan's "painless" technique for firing up cvs updates of your source tree: pkg_add -f ftp://freebsd.org/pub/CVSup/cvsupit.tgz Works wonderfully! On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote: > > I was having this problem with 2.2.5-R (as did a few other people who > cropped up on this list from time to time) and my solution (since I > haven't the diskspace to use CVS) was to upgrade using the snapshots on > releng22.freebsd.org. Snapshots after about mid-December have been quite > stable for me overall, without suffering a crash sincevery early in > January (after moving the machine a few hundred miles .. so maybe that > could have caused problems) and I have currently been having no problems > abd the machine has been up ~14 days since my last reboot. My advice is to > get a snapshot from early January (my last upgrade) and see what happens. > This is done from the upgrade option under /stand/sysinstall. I am using > 2.2-980101-SNAP right now. > Steve Grandi, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, Arizona USA Internet: grandi@noao.edu Voice: +1 520 318-8228 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message