Re: 5.1-beta2 failed upgrade install

From: Kevin Oberman <oberman_at_es.net>
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 08:38:03 -0700
> Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 23:52:38 +0900 (JST)
> From: Masachika ISHIZUKA <ishizuka_at_ish.org>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org
> 
>   Are there anybody who can upgrade to 5.1-RC1 successfully with Xeon
> or Pentium4 ?  I can newly install 5.1-RC1, but I can not upgrade from
> 5.1-BETA or 5.1-RC1 to 5.1-RC1 with Xeon or Pentium4 without panics.

I had exactly this problem on my IBM T30 (1.8 GHz P4). Random panics,
usually 4 or 12. Not repeatable.Oddly, many (most?) of the failures were
not during compiles, but doing rm or chmod or something similarly
trivial!  Very weird.

After trying for a while to get a clean build, I finally started
re-starting the buildworld with -DNOCLEAN (occasionally after deleting
something that was in progress) during the build.

Once I got a new system build, things were fine again. I immediately
rebuilt again, as it was possible that something had been messed up in
one of the panics and I missed it.

I could also not update some ports.

I have no idea of the cause, but I have not seen it again.

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman_at_es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634
Received on Tue Jun 03 2003 - 06:38:06 UTC

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:37:10 UTC