Date: Fri, 12 Nov 1999 18:23:54 +0000 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Severe problems with softupdates. Message-ID: <199911121823.SAA00389@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net> of "Thu, 11 Nov 1999 20:11:49 GMT." <19991111201148.A5748@florence.pavilion.net>
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[.....] > I believe that Brian has also had the same problems (at FreeBSDCon). > > Can people put their hands up if they believe that they've experienced this > so that we can determine whether there's a deeper softupdates problem that > we're ignoring on faith? I have to admit that I had a rather nasty crash while doing an installworld @FreeBSDCon. The result was a trashed /usr/bin and /usr/lib among other things. When I eventually got the machine back up, another installworld sorted things out. Sooo, I don't think in my case that anything was hurt that wasn't actually being updated, *but*, I did see some ``UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE INCONSISTENCY'' messages when it failed to ``fsck -p'' ! I don't know enough about the fs code to say what the problem is, or even to deny that it's a transient hardware problem.... perhaps encountered during a critical bit of softupdate syncing code and causing a hard crash ???!? [.....] > Joe. > -- > Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? > Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) > Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@FreeBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@OpenBSD.org> Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! <brian@FreeBSD.org.uk> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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