On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 at 03:18, Thomas Mueller <mueller6...@twc.com> wrote: > > One of these bugs relates to entropy and how it impedes building many > packages in pkgsrc. > > I seemed to get around this bug on one computer but not the other. > > Other bug is longer-standing and plagued me in NetBSD 8.99.51 and again in > 9.99.82. > > That bug causes device timeouts on some types of hard drive but not all. > > Sample output is, excerpt from /var/run/dmesg.boot on the following reboot: > > ut writing fsbn 2391623168 of 239162391623560 of 2391623560-2391623568; cn > 2372642 tn 0 sn 32), xfer 40, retry 3 > wd1d: device timeout writing fsbn 2391623176 of 2391623176-2391623199 (wd1 bn > 2391623176; cn 2372642 tn 0 sn 40), xfer e0, retry 3
... > wd1d: device timeout writing fsbn 2391623688 of 2391623688-2391623691 (wd1 bn > 2391623688; cn 2372642 tn 8 sn 48), xfer 180, retry 1 > wd1d: device timeout writing fsbn 2391623692 of 2391623692-2391623723 (wd1 bn > 2391623692; cn 2372642 tn 8 sn 52), xfer 220, retry 1 > > When this happens, computer is halted. All I can do, other than Reset > button, is Ctrl-Alt-Esc to get into debugger, and then reboot. > > This does not happen all the time, there may be several days uptime, > sometimes over 30 days, before I get this crash. > > Have either of these bugs been fixed since my last build of NetBSD amd64 and > i386 (9.99.82)? > > I don't want to go through the trouble of updating NetBSD installation only > to find one or both of these bugs still active. Not much of a trouble this one - just install sysutils/sysbuild and sysutils/sysupgrade; by default your build will carry on overnight, in the morning you can upgrade to the latest -current (sysupgrade -auto), just be careful with the etcupdate answers. I have been using these since they became available in pkgsrc and have had (almost) no trouble (on a rare occasion when vital system shared libraries have been obsoleted and removed, the sysupgrade process may not complete and you may have to repeat it; so far it has never come for me to a point where I had to boot singe-user and recover manually the system). The entropy problem for me also was solved when I realised I have to use 'shutdown -r', as I also was in the habit of using 'reboot'. I am sure you have watched https://youtu.be/57z9BO95cEc - in my view, this is necessary if one is interested in NetBSD. The only (minor) problem I am still having occasionally is with cmake, which hangs for me in two well-defined and repeating spots when I am doing pkg_rolling-replace (the build completes when I attach to the cmake process with gdb and just quit it). This has been discussed before, I still am not clear if this is entropy related (unlikely as it occurs always during the build of two particular packages only), a problem with threads or an internal cmake bug. > > Tom > Chavdar P.S. If you are using NetBSD on a laptop with a Synaptics touchpad there were a few recent updates in the driver and in the Xorg capabilities, which made it really useful; only for this it would be beneficial to upgrade to 9.99.92, as it is right now. -- ----