Date: Sat, 23 Aug 1997 16:22:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Charles Mott <cmott@snake.srv.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.2 lockups Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970823161830.250D-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970823145931.5571A-100000@darkstar.home>
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On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Charles Mott wrote: > I recently upgraded from 2.1.0 to 2.2.2. It was a clean re-install (I > reformatted the disk). It is on an Intel 386 (25 or 33 MHz, I can't > remember) with 8mb of RAM and a 500mb IDE hard drive. I have been using > 2.1.0-R with no problems for over a year. OK. > Before I go on to the problems, I will say a few good things about 2.2.2. [deleted] Cool to know that stuff is working well for you. > The bad news is that I have had several lockups or crashes in a variety of > circumstances. There is no common thread really except to say that the > machine is doing something when it crashes rather being in an idle state. > I will give two examples. (1) A "host -l" to certain domains over pppd > seemed to very reliably crash the system. This problem does not happen > with user ppp, although the "host -l" process itself might die. (2) > Creating a tar archive directly a floppy disk, "tar -cvf /dev/fd0 ..." > also seemed to crash the system. There were several bugs in 2.2.2 that have been resolved in the 2.2-STABLE branch and will be available in the coming 2.2.5-RELEASE. In the meantime you can upgrade to -STABLE using the usual fetch-source-and-make-world or by contacting releng22.freebsd.org, which keeps built copies available for download daily. That may fix your random crashes. For your ppp problems, see http://www.freebsd.org/~brian. A new version of user PPP is available there that might clear up your problems. Crashes-under-load on PPP is a well known bug, but people have been reporting good results with the updated ppp. [note: for best results, your tar should be made to the raw floppy device /dev/rfd0 instead of the block device /dev/fd0.] Hope this helps! Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo
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