Re: Source upgrade from 5.5 to 6.X not safe?

2007-11-12 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 11/11/2007, [LoN]Kamikaze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If a binary/library that is currently used gets removed/replaced, it will be copied to memory. The process will not even recognize this. Only restarting the process will remove the old version from memory and cause the new one to be used.

Re: Source upgrade from 5.5 to 6.X not safe?

2007-11-12 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Adrian Chadd wrote: On 11/11/2007, [LoN]Kamikaze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If a binary/library that is currently used gets removed/replaced, it will be copied to memory. The process will not even recognize this. Only restarting the process will remove the old version from memory and cause the

Re: Source upgrade from 5.5 to 6.X not safe?

2007-11-11 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
In general, is it possible that the installkernel did /not/ complete correctly before I shut down? Is it ever possible that the machine could get put into an indeterminate state when doing installkernel on a running machine? HP-UX used to behave horribly when a binary got clobbered for a

Re: Source upgrade from 5.5 to 6.X not safe?

2007-11-04 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Well, in this case after running 'make installkernel' and rebooting, the system did not come back up because it got kernel fatals on reboot (fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode). It appears that my filesystems got marked dirty in the

Re: Source upgrade from 5.5 to 6.X not safe?

2007-11-04 Thread Clint Olsen
On Nov 04, Robert Watson wrote: When I upgrade a remote systems, I'll actually almost always run a few days with the new kernel and the old user space to make sure everything has settled nicely before doing the user space upgrade, which is harder to revert. Reverting to an old kernel is easy,

Re: Source upgrade from 5.5 to 6.X not safe?

2007-11-02 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Clint Olsen wrote: I just attempted a source upgrade from 5.5-STABLE to 6.3-PRERELEASE, and it was a disaster, more than likely because I forgot to do something. Normally I'm saved by the fact that the operations are not so scary as to cause problems. Well, in this case after running 'make

Re: Source upgrade from 5.5 to 6.X not safe?

2007-11-02 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Friday 02 November 2007 05:29:03 am Clint Olsen wrote: On Nov 02, LI Xin wrote: So we get: - 5.5-STABLE works well on your box - 6.2-RELEASE stock GENERIC works fine - 6.3-PRERELEASE failed for some reason. So far as I am aware I have no clue why this could happen. Could you

Re: Source upgrade from 5.5 to 6.X not safe?

2007-11-02 Thread Cristiano Deana
On 11/2/07, Clint Olsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just attempted a source upgrade from 5.5-STABLE to 6.3-PRERELEASE, and it Well, in this case after running 'make installkernel' and rebooting, Did you reboot in single user? -- Cris, member of G.U.F.I Italian FreeBSD User Group

Re: Source upgrade from 5.5 to 6.X not safe?

2007-11-02 Thread Clint Olsen
On Nov 02, LI Xin wrote: So we get: - 5.5-STABLE works well on your box - 6.2-RELEASE stock GENERIC works fine - 6.3-PRERELEASE failed for some reason. So far as I am aware I have no clue why this could happen. Could you check if you have any special configuration in your

Re: Source upgrade from 5.5 to 6.X not safe?

2007-11-02 Thread LI Xin
Clint Olsen wrote: I just attempted a source upgrade from 5.5-STABLE to 6.3-PRERELEASE, and it was a disaster, more than likely because I forgot to do something. Normally I'm saved by the fact that the operations are not so scary as to cause problems. [... restore old kernel worked; new kernel

Source upgrade from 5.5 to 6.X not safe?

2007-11-02 Thread Clint Olsen
I just attempted a source upgrade from 5.5-STABLE to 6.3-PRERELEASE, and it was a disaster, more than likely because I forgot to do something. Normally I'm saved by the fact that the operations are not so scary as to cause problems. Well, in this case after running 'make installkernel' and