Re: sysinstall fails on 3/31 -current iso

From: Brooks Davis <brooks_at_one-eyed-alien.net>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 10:22:51 -0800
On Thu, Apr 01, 2004 at 01:05:29PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote:
> I was installing from a snapshot generated by snapshots.jp.freebsd.org and
> got a panic when entering the fdisk screen.  I can try for a backtrace
> later but it was in a call to ufs_mkdir which called a softdep function.
> Anyone else seen this?  It may be a result of DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS or some
> other debugging feature on in -current but not releases.  5.1 and 5.2
> install on the same box ok.

This seems to match what I recall seeing when I tried to install a
snapshot I downloaded on the 24th.  I ended up grabbing a 5.2.1 CD and
installing from that since I was trying to get my laptop functional
again after breaking the old drive. :-(  Thank goodness for backups and
doing dev work in P4. :-)

-- Brooks

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