From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Feb 17 06:09:36 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA26871 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 06:09:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from super-g.inch.com (super-g.com [207.240.140.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA26860 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 06:09:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spork@super-g.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by super-g.inch.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA20017; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:09:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:09:21 -0500 (EST) From: spork X-Sender: spork@super-g.inch.com To: Steve Grandi cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: I need a strategy for making my STABLE installation stable In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Are you running any old LKMs with your new kernel? That one bit me really hard... In my case the linux LKM was out of date; bringing it up to the same rev as the kernel fixed things. Charles Sprickman spork@super-g.com ---- "I'm not a prophet or a stone-age man Just a mortal with potential of a superman I'm living on" -DB On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Steve Grandi wrote: > Thanks, Jonathan for your response. > > Since I started having the crashes, I started updating the system sources > via cvsup. So I am running an up-to-date kernel that has been upgraded since > 2.2.5-RELEASE. I admit I haven't done a "make world" to rebuild all the > utilities and such, though. > > I highly recommend, by the way, Jordan's "painless" technique for firing up > cvs updates of your source tree: > > pkg_add -f ftp://freebsd.org/pub/CVSup/cvsupit.tgz > > Works wonderfully! > > On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote: > > > > > I was having this problem with 2.2.5-R (as did a few other people who > > cropped up on this list from time to time) and my solution (since I > > haven't the diskspace to use CVS) was to upgrade using the snapshots on > > releng22.freebsd.org. Snapshots after about mid-December have been quite > > stable for me overall, without suffering a crash sincevery early in > > January (after moving the machine a few hundred miles .. so maybe that > > could have caused problems) and I have currently been having no problems > > abd the machine has been up ~14 days since my last reboot. My advice is to > > get a snapshot from early January (my last upgrade) and see what happens. > > This is done from the upgrade option under /stand/sysinstall. I am using > > 2.2-980101-SNAP right now. > > > > Steve Grandi, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, Arizona USA > Internet: grandi@noao.edu Voice: +1 520 318-8228 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message