From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 28 22:25:05 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BA3B1065670 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:25:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [IPv6:2001:470:a80a:1:21f:d0ff:fe22:b8a8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5252C8FC1F for ; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:25:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA79053EA0D2; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:25:04 -0600 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at honeypot.net Received: from kanga.honeypot.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (kanga.honeypot.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id NCC65Rhruzkn; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:25:01 -0600 (CST) Received: from pooh.honeypot.net (pooh.honeypot.net [IPv6:2001:470:a80a:1:20a:95ff:fed5:10f2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by kanga.honeypot.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1A1C853EA04A; Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:25:00 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: From: Kirk Strauser To: Mel In-Reply-To: <200901281245.17970.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:24:59 -0600 References: <497ECECD.2060403@fxclub.org> <200901270732.57972.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <200901281424.50680.kirk@strauser.com> <200901281245.17970.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 reboots on Dell 2950 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:25:05 -0000 On Jan 28, 2009, at 3:45 PM, Mel wrote: > On Wednesday 28 January 2009 11:24:50 Kirk Strauser wrote: >> On Tuesday 27 January 2009 10:32:57 Mel wrote: >>> Even though 7.1 has bugfixes, this kind of guesswork causes a lot of >>> downtime for OP without any certainty that things will be any >>> better. >> >> If by "lots" you mean "2 minutes for a reboot", I'd be inclined to >> agree. > > Right, you really want to do buildworld on a production machine that > experiences random reboots. That would make the situation worse how? The worst case is that it fails during installkernel, leaving him to boot from kernel.old. -- Kirk Strauser