Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 10:09:26 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> Cc: "J. W. Ballantine" <jwb@homer.att.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvsup/3.2-RELEASE Message-ID: <19990518100926.L89091@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <37402A7B.68C9BF34@3-cities.com>; from Kent Stewart on Mon, May 17, 1999 at 07:40:59AM -0700 References: <199905171422.KAA02625@akiva.homer.att.com> <37402A7B.68C9BF34@3-cities.com>
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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. 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
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