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Date:      Mon, 15 Nov 2004 00:15:53 -0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: is RELENG_5 Borked?
Message-ID:  <419865B9.8010205@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <4197DB02.8050601@elischer.org>
References:  <4197DB02.8050601@elischer.org>

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Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> I upgraded my Dell Inspiron 7500 to RELENG_5 and have been seeing all 
> sorts of problems.
> Previously it was running 5.3 beta7 and seemed happy with that.
> 
> the symptoms..
> boot to single user succeeds.
> however if the filesyste,s do not need cleaning  (?)
> it will freeze solit part way through going to multi-user..
> usually just after printing "preserving vi files" (or whatever the
> actual message is).
> 
> However if the filesystems DO need checking.
> it says that te filesyste, wil be checked in background,
> and that background fsck will be started in 60 seconds, and teh boot 
> succeeds
> all the way to multi user mode.
> 
> Once there, though I have to live with the slowdown of the fsck running...
> 
> Even before fsck starts however, everything appears VERY slow. The mouse
> reponds slowly and jerkily.
> 
> This was all not true with 5.3B7 so it's a recent change..

Going back to 5.3RELEASE fixes it..
I have no clue as to the problem.. the system freezes absolutly
from yesterday's RELENG_5 or doesn't fail. No debugger, no dump etc..

> 
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