Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 18:30:00 +0100 From: "Chris Rees" <utisoft@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: challenge: end of life for 6.2 is premature with buggy 6.3 Message-ID: <b79ecaef0806051030i142447f2ke3b6b3d92650dc3c@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thursday, June 05, 2008 10:23:55 -0400 John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> > wrote: > I'm glad to hear that. I have a server that uses bce, and it was completely > non-functional until I hunted down some beta code that made it usable. I'd > like to upgrade, but this is a critical server with no redundancy (and it's a > hobby site with no money to pay for expensive support), and I'm not about to > upgrade unless I know for certain the problems won't reoccur, because I have to > upgrade remotely and pay money if the system goes down. > > The problems with that driver were bad enough when the server was being > configured in my study. (The system would lock up, and only a hard reboot > would restore networking.) It would be hell trying to troubleshoot problems if > I had to drive the 45 miles to the hosting site and spend a night there trying > to get the server back up, then go to work the next day. > > # uname -a > FreeBSD www.stovebolt.com 6.1-RELEASE-p10 FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 #2: Mon Oct > 16 15:38:02 CDT 2006 root@www.stovebolt.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > i386 > > # grep bce /var/run/dmesg.boot > bce0: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B1), v0.9.6> mem > 0xf4000000-0xf5ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci9 > bce0: ASIC ID 0x57081010; Revision (B1); PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz > miibus0: <MII bus> on bce0 > bce0: Ethernet address: 00:13:72:fb:2a:ad > bce1: <Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T (B1), v0.9.6> mem > 0xf8000000-0xf9ffffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci5 > bce1: ASIC ID 0x57081010; Revision (B1); PCI-X 64-bit 133MHz > miibus1: <MII bus> on bce1 > bce1: Ethernet address: 00:13:72:fb:2a:ab > > # grep bce0 /var/log/messages > May 2 09:10:31 www kernel: bce0: link state changed to DOWN > May 2 09:10:39 www kernel: bce0: link state changed to UP > May 25 07:49:49 www kernel: bce0: link state changed to DOWN > May 25 07:50:31 www kernel: bce0: link state changed to UP > May 26 21:28:36 www kernel: bce0: link state changed to DOWN > May 26 21:28:40 www kernel: bce0: link state changed to UP > May 27 13:13:21 www kernel: bce0: link state changed to DOWN > May 27 13:13:31 www kernel: bce0: link state changed to UP > > It's been like that since the server was installed. > > So, if I upgrade to 6.3 or 7.0, am I still going to experience these problems? > Is the server going to stop working entirely? How can I know that for sure > before starting an upgrade? Damn, that's fascinating. I get that with nfe, on my xbox; amnesiac# uname -a FreeBSD amnesiac.bayofrum.net 7.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1 #9: Wed May 28 23:14:21 BST 2008 root@amnesiac.bayofrum.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/AMNESIAC i386 amnesiac# uptime 6:27PM up 7 days, 18:53, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.05, 0.06 amnesiac# tail /var/log/messages Jun 3 17:39:31 amnesiac kernel: pid 37682 (python), uid 80 inumber 871485 on /usr/spare: filesystem full Jun 4 17:07:24 amnesiac kernel: nfe0: link state changed to DOWN Jun 4 17:07:34 amnesiac kernel: nfe0: link state changed to UP Jun 4 17:07:40 amnesiac kernel: nfe0: link state changed to DOWN Jun 4 17:07:54 amnesiac kernel: nfe0: link state changed to UP Jun 4 18:39:50 amnesiac kernel: nfe0: link state changed to DOWN Jun 4 18:40:01 amnesiac kernel: nfe0: link state changed to UP Jun 4 18:40:07 amnesiac kernel: nfe0: link state changed to DOWN Jun 4 18:40:21 amnesiac kernel: nfe0: link state changed to UP Jun 5 18:26:58 amnesiac sudo: chris : TTY=ttyp0 ; PWD=/usr/home/chris ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/su Hm, I swear that's getting more regular. Anyway, it hasn't lost permanantly yet, but I was just ignoring them (my Linux background :$). Should I be worried?? I'll provide any other details if anyone's interested.
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