Do we have an updated status on this? I just got my new laptop, so I was going to burn an ISO of the latest RC and give it a try, but if it's going to blow up on install I don't want to waste time... Doug Scott Long wrote: > All, > > As I mentioned yesterday, we have a serious show-stopper for the 5.2 > release. Jeff Roberson and Doug White did some good diagnosis work a > few nights ago, but we are still without a fix. We cannot cut 5.2 until > this gets resolved. I know that this is the end of the year and > everyone has deadlines, family, travel, etc, but we really need some > more eyes on this. To recap, a panic happens from sysinstall while > unpacking the bin distribution. It is most readily created by enabling > SoftUpdates on the root partition, but there are reports that SU is not > a required factor. The panic originates in the fsync codepath and > ends with a corrupt mutex. This is discussed on the freebsd-current_at_ > mailing under the subject of "HAVE TRACE & DDB Re: FreeBSD 5.2-RC1 > released". Any help is appreciated. > > Thanks, > > The Release Engineering Team >Received on Tue Dec 16 2003 - 12:23:57 UTC
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