From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 17 07:43:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA17982 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 07:43:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nomis.simon-shapiro.org (nomis.simon-shapiro.org [209.86.126.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA17967 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 07:43:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shimon@simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 24582 invoked by uid 1000); 17 Oct 1998 15:46:17 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <22286.908622736@time.cdrom.com> Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 11:46:17 -0400 (EDT) X-Face: (&r=uR0&yvh>h^ZL4"-TH61PD}/|Y'~58Z# Gz&BK'&uLAf:2wLb~L7YcWfau{;N(#LR2)\i.l8'ZqVhv~$rNx$]Om6Sv36S'\~5m/U'"i/L)&t$R0&?,)tm0l5xZ!\hZU^yMyCdt!KTcQ376cCkQ^Q_n.GH;Dd-q+ O51^+.K-1Kq?WsP9;cw-Ki+b.iY-5@3!YB5{I$h;E][Xlg*sPO61^5=:5k)JdGet,M|$"lq!1!j_>? $0Yc? Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: Show Stopper? Failure to Install 19981014 Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, mike@smith.net.au, Bruce Evans Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jordan K. Hubbard, On 17-Oct-98 you wrote: > > Because newfs was broken in rev.1.9 of newfs/newfs.c (before 2.0.5R). > > Unfortunately, the breaker didn't seem to have investigated the failure > > mode, so I didn't know how to fix it when I backed out the breakage > > in rev.1.22. > > Unfortunately, you broke it even worse. Please don't cause worse > breakage, where breakage is defined as systems which no longer > install, in the process of fixing other breakage. This "feature" in > 1.22 will stay disabled until the root issues are figured out, not > before. Please note that: a. At least here, newfs, in and by itself, in an installed system does not exhibit any of these messages, nor the faulty behavior. Only the context of sysinstall, from the boot floppy does. b. We have not done a complete, destructive, install since the pre-CAM days. The problem might have been there all along. c. The release we built on the 4th of October displays the messages but does not fail to install. The release of the 13th displays the same messages but fails to install. Maybe there is sme help in these notes... Sincerely Yours, Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG 770.265.7340 Simon Shapiro Unwritten code has no bugs and executes at twice the speed of mouth To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message