From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 10 13:49:47 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D2A816A4BF for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:49:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp1.server.rpi.edu (smtp1.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12F0C43FBF for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 13:49:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp1.server.rpi.edu (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h9AKnhLg003095; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:49:44 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: drosih@mail.rpi.edu Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20031010124744.V66490@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20031010124744.V66490@carver.gumbysoft.com> Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:49:42 -0400 To: Doug White From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Seeing system-lockups on recent current X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 20:49:47 -0000 At 12:48 PM -0700 10/10/03, Doug White wrote: >On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > >> For the past week or so, I have been having a frustrating time >> with my freebsd-current/i386 system. It is a dual Athlon >> system. It has been running -current just fine since December, >> with me updating the OS every week or two. I did not update it >> for most of September, and then went to update it to pick up >> the recent round of security-related fixes. > >It would be useful to isolate exactly what day the problem >started occuring. That would simplify isolating the offending >commit. Use the date specifier in cvsup to checkout specific >dates, then build & test. I've done that. As mentioned in the message, I've done complete system rebuilds using snapshots from about Sept 12th to Oct 8th. The problem is that it's tedious do keep doing these rebuilds, when the very act of a buildworld or buildkernel can trigger the system lockup. I really am torn between thinking that it's a change in -current and thinking it must be something about my specific system. Depending on which set of observations I pick, I can make an excellent case for either one being the culprit. So, if no one else *is* seeing this kind of problem, then it's more likely to be my hardware (one way or another). I'll keep trying things. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu