On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:13 AM, Markus Hitter <[email protected]> wrote: > > Am 26.02.2009 um 18:44 schrieb Ross Penner: > >> When I enable powerd, it is only but a matter of time before my >> machine will lock up completely. I've had this problem since I've >> migrated to FreeBSD 7 from 6. FreeBSD 6 never seemed to have any >> problems. > > As FreeBSD Stable is a continuous development, you have good chances to > narrow down the culprit by bisecting. The assumption is, one single SVN > commit broke your functionality and you just have to find out which one. > > Get sources from SVN, then switch to the earliest Stable/7 to confirm your > assumption ("it broke with 7"). If it works, check out a few thousand SVN > revisions later, try again. If it doesn't work, switch to an earlier > revision, a late Stable/6. Each step cuts the number of SVN revisions in > question in half, after some 10 or 12 iterations you're down to a single > revision. > > Having a single revision pretty much directly points you to what the problem > is. This helps developers very much and with some luck you can reverse-apply > this change to a more recent set of the sources. > > > MarKus > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter > http://www.jump-ing.de/
Thanks for the idea! is downgrading possible or will I have to reinstall? _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
