On Apr 18, 2009, at 14:05, Doug Hardie wrote:
I have encountered a rather interesting issue trying to install
rc1. The system boots and then says there is no disk in the CD
drive. The rc1 disk1 downloaded fine and the checksums matched.
The CD will mount fine in other systems and can easily be read. I
then let 7.0 boot on the test system and mounted the 7.2 cd. It
mounts fine and I can read all the files ( well a few that I
tested). Looking through the 7.0 dmesg I find some rather
unexpected entries for the CD drive.
...
Since I can't boot the CD, I did a source update. Unfortunately I
seem to have downloaded one of the kernel modules while it was being
updated since it would not compile. Since it was for hardware I don't
have, I just commented it out and everything then built just fine.
#device ath # Atheros pci/cardbus NIC's
#device ath_hal # Atheros HAL (Hardware Access Layer)
#device ath_rate_sample # SampleRate tx rate control for ath
I usually run a stress test on new releases. Basically I open a ftp
to a server (local LAN) and download gigs of data - more than the
available free space on the drive. With 7.1, the download would hang
about 50% of the time. There was free space remaining on the drive.
The NIC was basically useless at that point. The only way to restore
it was to reboot. The particular machine I am using right now only
has an old decrepit rl NIC:
rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem
0xdd104000-0xdd1040ff irq 12 at device 13.0 on pci0
rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> PHY 0 on miibus0
rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
rl0: Ethernet address: 00:d0:09:d8:8f:ff
rl0: [ITHREAD]
When running this test with 7.2-rc1 it always managed to make it to
disk full and then terminate gracefully. Looks like the rl NICs are
going to be usable. I had eliminated them from my production servers
a long time ago.
The only real issue I encountered was that the number of files you
have to respond to in mergemaster continues to grow (perhaps
exponentially). For my machine I maintain the source on thats no big
issue. However, it does cause a lot of additional down time for the
servers. I am going to have to dig through mergemaster to see if
there is some way to tell it to automatically install the updates to
specific directories (e.g., periodic, security, rc.d etc.). I never
touch them and they contribute the majority of manual entries.
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