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Date:      Mon, 16 Feb 1998 13:51:27 -0700 (MST)
From:      Steve Grandi <grandi@noao.edu>
To:        jef53313@bayou.uh.edu
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I need a strategy for making my STABLE installation stable
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.3.96.980216134421.9052D-100000@mirfak.tuc.noao.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980216141957.29397A-100000@Dorm-35861.RH.UH.EDU>

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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


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