From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 19 21:30:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat192.236.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.192.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70624156CF for ; Mon, 19 Apr 1999 21:30:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA64199 for ; Tue, 20 Apr 1999 01:27:47 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 01:27:28 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: -STABLE isn't stable - SCSI *and* Ethernet ... Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wow...what a mistake this past couple of days have been...the other day, figuring that after ~3months, it might be time to re-sync with -STABLE, figuring that, by its very name, this should be a safe thing to do... ...what a rude awakening I've had :( First off, the xl driver has recently been broken...Bill Paul has so far produced two patches in an attempt to fix them, but...its -STABLE...why should it have broken in the first place? The breakage, which has been reported by one other who tried a similar upgrade, is that after a random period of time, the ethernet's go completely dead and require a reboot to fix :( Bill's latest fix has been reported as "hanging the machine on boot"... 5 minutes ago, I had a new joy: Apr 19 23:34:50 hub /kernel: vm_fault: pager read error, pid 73235 (sendmail) Apr 19 23:34:50 hub /kernel: swap_pager: I/O error - pagein failed; blkno 520, size 4096, error 6 And my /home directory just totally disappeared...I just rebooted back up into my old kernel, and all drives fsck'd fine, and so far, no problems... These are the kinds of things I expect on my home machine, running 4.0-CURRENT...not my production machine running 3.1-STABLE :( Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message