Yesterday I installed a clean 2009.06 in a virtual machine from ISO. I then added Emacs to it :-). Rebooted various times, worked fine. (Virtualbox, Windows XP host, 32-bit guest, 2 processors, 960MB ram, 16GB disk).
I then used pkg to switch to the dev repository, and then did an image-upgrade. It ran overnight (download seems to have been very slow; I'm on 7 megabit DSL so it's not basic connectivity slowness). When I rebooted it this morning there were various errors, including TCP saying it was short of memory and some device driver issue with IDE. Obviously to really diagnose this you'd need more info, if I'm the first person to have this problem. When I rebooted it again it again stopped making progress before switching to graphics mode. In both cases it responded to an ACPI shutdown from the VM menu, so it definitely wasn't fully "hung". Right now, my question is, has anybody else done this? Worked, or had problems? I'd kind of expect this to work reliably :-(. I'm reasonably sure adding emacs is not the source of the problem! (Though if I have to start over, I'll certainly omit that step next time, just in case.) I'm really glad I tried this test; I'm working up to upgrading my home fileserver, which is currently on 2009.6. Maybe I *will* wait until the next stable release, instead of stepping into /dev as I had planned. -- David Dyer-Bennet, d...@dd-b.net; http://dd-b.net/ Snapshots: http://dd-b.net/dd-b/SnapshotAlbum/data/ Photos: http://dd-b.net/photography/gallery/ Dragaera: http://dragaera.info _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
