From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Apr 24 10:55:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA20697 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:55:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [194.77.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA20691 for ; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 10:55:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.7.2/8.7.2) with UUCP id SAA23148; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 18:45:15 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) id OAA12523; Thu, 24 Apr 1997 14:23:07 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19970424142306.59692@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 14:23:06 +0200 From: Andreas Klemm To: Simon Shapiro Cc: freebsd-hackers.freebsd.org@sendero.i-connect.net, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RELELNG_2_2 is Broken - Help!!! References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69 In-Reply-To: ; from Simon Shapiro on Wed, Apr 23, 1997 at 05:21:38PM -0700 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, Apr 23, 1997 at 05:21:38PM -0700, Simon Shapiro wrote: [-- Warning: iso-8859-8 is not compatible with your display.] > What is the value of PCI_SUBID_REG2 ?? In the commit message to pci.c Stefan wrote 0x40. So one had a nice chance to include the define into pcireg.h ;-) In the meantime Stfan has committed that already. > I am trying to get a 2.2 kernel that runs for more than 5 minutes without a > panic on the open problem (with short shell scripts, etc.). I'm running 2.2-STABLE and have zero problems at all ! Runs perfectly stable ! Maybe you should check your kernel config file or upgrade to 2.2-STABLE and do a make world ??? > Alternative: How do I checkout of CVS /usr/src/sys as of 13-Feb-97? It is > the last kernel I know of to exhibit usable level of stability. With the -D option, which allows you to checkout a release branch or HEAD (-current) at a certain date ... > [ Before you attack me for bad mouthing the RELENG_2_2 kernel: ] > > On our development platforms, all kernels since either blow up on > aic7xxx, or (I am told) sd.c (if a SCSI disk is lazy and times out), or > panics as I reported before, when X11 is running. The SCSI problems is > VERY visisble when doing dump. This is correct for 18-Apr-97. due to the > problem above, I cannot build newer kernels. Just in case that you read the mailing lists and news you might have noticed, that Justin worked very hard on that and if you update your machine to 2.2-STABLE, you'll see, that all the problems will go away. I have a really rock solid 2.2-STABLE here, no matter if I do large I/O disk benchmarks, dumps and such ! I'll give you a kernel config file as reference in the attachement. > I am trying to get a 2.2 kernel that runs for more than 5 minutes without a > panic on the open problem (with short shell scripts, etc.). _The_ open problem ??? Is it a well known problem ? ;-)) Well, I have _zero_ problems in this area. FreeBSD acts as a Internet gateway here and I' gettings nearly all mailing-lists, have squid running, a WWW Server ... and no problems with open. I suggest you tell your problems more verbously. But anyway ... there is a STABLE tree, that's RELENG_2_2, either you cvsup the sources or the cvs repository, if the latter is the case for you, simply checkout RELENG_2_2 # cd /somewhere_with_about_150_MB_free_space # cvs checkout -r RELENG_2_2 src # cd src && time make world >& world.log & Since you have problems with your SCSI subsystem it's surely a good idea to build and install a new stable kernel first before doing a make world. Andreas /// -- andreas@klemm.gtn.com /\/\___ Wiechers & Partner Datentechnik GmbH Andreas Klemm ___/\/\/ Support Unix -- andreas.klemm@wup.de pgp p-key http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~bal/pks-toplev.html >>> powered by <<< ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/Printing/aps-491.tgz >>> FreeBSD <<<