From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 23 15:58:04 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86AE3106566B for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:58:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from dhcp-172-16-22-158.lon.corp.google.com (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02A7F8FC0C; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:58:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <4979E90B.8070403@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:58:03 +0000 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Macintosh/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pete Carah References: <49747F10.7050801@altadena.net> <4974EC4C.4020004@FreeBSD.org> <49754D2D.2030902@altadena.net> In-Reply-To: <49754D2D.2030902@altadena.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Big problems with 7.1 locking up :-( X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:58:04 -0000 Pete Carah wrote: > Well, following up on my own reply earlier, I csup'd releng_7 with a > date of last dec 1; the result works fine > in the laptop. I'll reload the eastern soekris tonight and see how it > does. If the soekris is fine also then this gives a data point for > whenever the bad commit(s) happened. > > I had apparently made the mistaken assumption that a general release > should be better debugged than the work-in-progress leading up to it... I'm sorry FreeBSD has failed to live up to your expectations. As ever, we strive to fix more bugs than we introduce, but in a changing codebase this is never possible to guarantee or to always achieve. Kris