Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:09:21 -0500 (EST) From: spork <spork@super-g.com> To: Steve Grandi <grandi@noao.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I need a strategy for making my STABLE installation stable Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980217090812.20010A-100000@super-g.inch.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980216134421.9052D-100000@mirfak.tuc.noao.edu>
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Are you running any old LKMs with your new kernel? That one bit me really
hard... In my case the linux LKM was out of date; bringing it up to the
same rev as the kernel fixed things.
Charles Sprickman
spork@super-g.com
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"I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man
Just a mortal with potential of a superman
I'm living on" -DB
On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Steve Grandi wrote:
> 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
>
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