Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 15:38:35 +0200 From: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua> To: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spontaneous Reboots Message-ID: <19990210153835.A22049@ucb.crimea.ua> In-Reply-To: <199902101332.IAA18723@spoon.beta.com>; from Brian J. McGovern on Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 08:32:32AM -0500 References: <199902101332.IAA18723@spoon.beta.com>
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On Wed, Feb 10, 1999 at 08:32:32AM -0500, Brian J. McGovern wrote: > Just a thought I noticed in reading all the mail. It appears that most of the > people who upgraded from 2.2.x to 3.0-STABLE are the ones with the most > problems. People (like myself) who went to 3.0 on a clean install, and then > started tracking stable seem to be doing ok. I went so far as to build a > release of 3.0-STABLE, and install from that. I've had a days worth of uptime > with each of the versions, and haven't had a single problem with reboots > that people have been complaining about all along the upgrade path. > > Heck, I can even try to write to read only media (ie - a CD), and it just > comes back and complains "<file>: Read-only file system". No panics on > the unmount, either. > > You may want to consider freshly clean install of -STABLE, or at least > upgrade to 3.0 before following the stable path. Might find it works better. > I also think I remember an email from Jordan saying (paraphrasing) that the > upgrade path is filled with pitfalls.... > There is no difference here. -- Ruslan Ermilov Sysadmin and DBA of the ru@ucb.crimea.ua United Commercial Bank +380.652.247.647 Simferopol, Ukraine http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve http://www.oracle.com Enabling The Information Age To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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