From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 28 09:17:01 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 44EEF16A416 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:17:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (cpc2-cdif2-0-0-cust107.cdif.cable.ntl.com [81.104.168.108]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCB7743D46 for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:17:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from fenrirw.private.submonkey.net ([192.168.10.23]) by shrike.submonkey.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1GSs0d-000D9p-RS; Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:16:57 +0100 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/11.2.5.060620 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:16:55 +0100 From: Ceri Davies To: Ahmad Arafat Abdullah , Chris , FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: Thread-Topic: Downgrade from 6.2 PR to 6.1 RELEASE? Thread-Index: Acbi3tdWFgLD407SEduXUwAUUSJIlg== In-Reply-To: <20060928004252.AB07B1CE305@ws1-6.us4.outblaze.com> Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: 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: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:17:01 -0000 On 28/9/06 01:42, "Ahmad Arafat Abdullah" wrote: > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Chris >> To: "FreeBSD Questions" >> Subject: Downgrade from 6.2 PR to 6.1 RELEASE? >> Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 16:46:42 -0700 >> >> >> 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. > > > maybe u can give it a try, why not? same like my case, and it's weird.. > when i upgraded my box to 6.2-PRERELEASE, something weird happens.. i can't > login to my KDE ( my KDE is up and running ) using my user+pass, surprisingly > i add one more user+pass and it's can logged in! Can you report that to kde@FreeBSD.org please? We're building 6.2-BETA2 this weekend and it would be nice to fix this before 6.2-RELEASE if it's a wider issue. Ceri -- That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere