From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 27 23:47:07 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50BB616A407 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:47:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from snagit@cbpratt.prohosting.com) Received: from n054.sc0.cp.net (smtpout1087.sc0.he.tucows.com [64.97.144.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1074A43D64 for ; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:47:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from snagit@cbpratt.prohosting.com) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (67.47.213.85) by n054.sc0.cp.net (7.2.069.1) (authenticated as eagletree@hughes.net) id 4519C87D00044251 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:46:55 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <8BA05131-1448-48C5-A3F3-07E9654B658F@cbpratt.prohosting.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: FreeBSD Questions From: Chris Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:46:42 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Subject: Downgrade from 6.2 PR to 6.1 RELEASE? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:47:07 -0000 I felt I should ask this question before taking a drastic action. I built this new production system complete with jail (which I can recreate very quickly) and all was running perfectly under 6.2 PRERELEASE. I was planning taking a chance and going production (against common wisdom of running 6.2 PRERELEASE in production). Yesterday I decided to cvsup and rebuild one more time and discovered a glaring problem on this AMD64 Tyan s4882. It can't reboot with the reboot command or shutdown -r about 75% of the time, it hangs between the uptime output and where it states Rebooting, then requires a manual reset to get going again. This tells me I have to fall back or will create a nightmare for production use. Presuming I can live with certain driver issues on 6.1 RELEASE P6, are there any serious dangers or unique procedures in going backward, to RELENG_6_1 from RELENG_6 that suggest it would be better to just start from scratch? I've not fallen back from CURRENT to a RELEASE, this will be my first time.