From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jun 5 10:43:38 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA16165 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 10:43:38 -0700 Received: from Root.COM (implode.Root.COM [198.145.90.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA16159 for ; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 10:43:35 -0700 Received: from corbin.Root.COM (corbin.Root.COM [198.145.90.18]) by Root.COM (8.6.8/8.6.5) with ESMTP id KAA14190; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 10:46:30 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corbin.Root.COM (8.6.11/8.6.5) with SMTP id KAA07302; Mon, 5 Jun 1995 10:43:42 -0700 Message-Id: <199506051743.KAA07302@corbin.Root.COM> To: Joe Greco cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.0.5-A: Very disheartening? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 05 Jun 95 04:55:33 CDT." <199506050955.EAA06438@brasil.moneng.mei.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Mon, 05 Jun 1995 10:43:40 -0700 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >Jordan, it does seem like there's something that's not quite kosher with >2.0.5-A, and it has nothing to do with the floppies, as far as I can tell. >I now have two systems that are definitely unstable - two entirely different >types of systems, at that - and both have run earlier revisions of FreeBSD 2 >and taken heavy poundings with relative grace for over half a year now. Considering the kind of extensive testing that I and others have been doing over the last 2 months, and the relative few changes that have been made to the kernel (especially in areas that might make a difference in the kind of problems that you're seeing), I must conclude that the problem is specific to both your configuration and the way that the installation works. I think there is some kind of quirk in the kernel gziping and/or compressed MFS that is being used in the install process that is causing the problem. I am interested in working with you and others to diagnose and fix the problem, but I have very little to go by at the moment. Any information that you can provide about your hardware and the steps you took (such as disabling or not disabling devices in userconfig, etc.), is escential. -DG