Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 19:05:01 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb@homer.att.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup/3.2-RELEASE Message-ID: <3740CACD.D98334B7@3-cities.com> References: <199905171422.KAA02625@akiva.homer.att.com> <37402A7B.68C9BF34@3-cities.com> <19990518100926.L89091@freebie.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > On Monday, 17 May 1999 at 7:40:59 -0700, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > > > "J. W. Ballantine" wrote: > >> > >> I did a sup on my 3.1-STABLE system Friday, early evening, and then > >> did a make world and a kernel rebuild/install. When I checked on the > >> make world Saturday am, the screen was locked, so i rebooted the system > >> and when it came up the kernel said it was 3.2-RELEASE. However, the > >> system wouldn't start because /bin/sh was not in executable format. > >> When I was able to bring up the system using /bin/csh, I looked at the > >> make world log and found it failed during an install in the games > >> dir because bin was not a valid account on the system, yet bin is a valid > >> user in the passwd file. > >> > >> Did I sup at the wrong time and get ``bad'' source?? > >> Is there some major change between 3.1-STABLE and 3.2-RELEASE that resulted > >> in the problem, or is there something else going on??? > > > > I started having my system hang when I started X at the same time. > > They went from 3.1-current, to beta, to 3.2-release and my stability > > problems have been going on for a week. > > People, if you *do* have problems running beta software, raise a large > flag, making it clear that it's happening with beta software. That's > what the beta test period is for, and we're more than usually > responsive to any problems you may have. The last thing we want is > for software to go out there with bugs of this dimension. I think I was told about mergemaster on Sunday and it wasn't until long after midnight that I had what I thought was a merged system with new dev's. Early this morning (Monday) was when I first saw this message from someone who was also having strange problems. The change from 3.1-stable to 3.2-release involves a lot of changes. A buildworld requires three hours on this system and a long time to bring /etc up todate. Sunday was the first day where a cvsup didn't have numerous changes and the first day I thought I had a real problem that wasn't being fixed. I don't normally run X and the system only hangs when I run X. It started out looking like a configuration problem because it mostly went away after running XF86Setup and a vidtune. I went from moving the mouse around the screen 3 or 4 times for it to lock up to using the system for several hours. The only process I use right now that I start X for is to do a cvsup. That doesn't take several hours. The intent was to install WordPerfect 8 and Navigator 4.6 but that is on hold. Kent > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers > finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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