Re: Latest stable fixes are unstable
On Thursday 09 October 2003 03:36 pm, Jeffrey Wheat wrote: After applying the last set of patches via a cvs run of RELENG_4, I have servers crashing and rebooting that had run for months on end prior to the fixes. A good way to avoid the possibility of that and still get all the security patches is to update to RELENG_4_8. -- Todd Stephens Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Latest stable fixes are unstable
After applying the last set of patches via a cvs run of RELENG_4, I have servers crashing and rebooting that had run for months on end prior to the fixes. This is happening on 4.8-STABLE (now called 4.9-RC) and on 5.0-STABLE servers. I am really concerned about about this as are my higher ups. I have been running FreeBSD on my servers for the past 8 years and I am very familiar with how to build kernels, update source trees, etc. Reverting back to the sources prior to the recent kernel changes, makes things stable again. Can anyone shed light on this or speak up if you are having the same problems? Thanks in advance, Jeff --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.522 / Virus Database: 320 - Release Date: 9/29/2003 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Latest stable fixes are unstable
Hi, First off, there is no 5.0 STABLE. If you cvsup'd to 5.x this is the source of your problems as that is the development branch. To better understand what problems you are having, you need to give information like a crash dump. Compile a debug kernel for the machine that is crashing See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html enable the saving of your core dump on your swap partition. e.g. if you have it on a 3ware card add dumpdev=/dev/twed0b # Device name to crashdump to (or NO). dumpdir=/var/crash# Directory where crash dumps are to be stored to /etc/rc.conf and reboot or type /sbin/dumpon /dev/twed0b or if you have an ide drive and the swap is on ad0s1b, then /sbin/dumpon /dev/ad0s1b when your machine crashes / panics, type gdb -k kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.0 and type bt send the results to the stable list, which if you track stable you should be following. ---Mike At 03:36 PM 09/10/2003, Jeffrey Wheat wrote: After applying the last set of patches via a cvs run of RELENG_4, I have servers crashing and rebooting that had run for months on end prior to the fixes. This is happening on 4.8-STABLE (now called 4.9-RC) and on 5.0-STABLE servers. I am really concerned about about this as are my higher ups. I have been running FreeBSD on my servers for the past 8 years and I am very familiar with how to build kernels, update source trees, etc. Reverting back to the sources prior to the recent kernel changes, makes things stable again. Can anyone shed light on this or speak up if you are having the same problems? Thanks in advance, Jeff --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.522 / Virus Database: 320 - Release Date: 9/29/2003 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Latest stable fixes are unstable
On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 03:36:55PM -0400, Jeffrey Wheat wrote: After applying the last set of patches via a cvs run of RELENG_4, I have servers crashing and rebooting that had run for months on end prior to the fixes. This is happening on 4.8-STABLE (now called 4.9-RC) and on 5.0-STABLE servers. I am really concerned about about this as are my higher ups. I have been running FreeBSD on my servers for the past 8 years and I am very familiar with how to build kernels, update source trees, etc. Reverting back to the sources prior to the recent kernel changes, makes things stable again. Can anyone shed light on this or speak up if you are having the same problems? Please, don't tell us a single detail about the problems so we can keep neglecting to fix them. Thanks. :-) Kris pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
RE: Latest stable fixes are unstable
Kris, Apologies for being so vague... All that happens on the 4.8(4.9RC) servers is they suddenly reboot without leaving anything in the log files at all, so it is very difficult to provide more details on the crash. On the 5.0 servers, I get page faults. I am going to enable crash dumps on these servers now. Jeff -Original Message- From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 4:09 PM To: Jeffrey Wheat Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Latest stable fixes are unstable On Thu, Oct 09, 2003 at 03:36:55PM -0400, Jeffrey Wheat wrote: After applying the last set of patches via a cvs run of RELENG_4, I have servers crashing and rebooting that had run for months on end prior to the fixes. This is happening on 4.8-STABLE (now called 4.9-RC) and on 5.0-STABLE servers. I am really concerned about about this as are my higher ups. I have been running FreeBSD on my servers for the past 8 years and I am very familiar with how to build kernels, update source trees, etc. Reverting back to the sources prior to the recent kernel changes, makes things stable again. Can anyone shed light on this or speak up if you are having the same problems? Please, don't tell us a single detail about the problems so we can keep neglecting to fix them. Thanks. :-) Kris --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.522 / Virus Database: 320 - Release Date: 9/29/2003 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.522 / Virus Database: 320 - Release Date: 9/29/2003 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Latest stable fixes are unstable
At 4:14 PM -0400 10/9/03, Jeffrey Wheat wrote: Apologies for being so vague... All that happens on the 4.8(4.9RC) servers is they suddenly reboot without leaving anything in the log files at all, so it is very difficult to provide more details on the crash. In the case of the 4.9 systems, are you VERY up-to-date? There were a few changes recently made which did cause problems for some users, but it should be true that all of those are now fixed. You'd pretty much want to be running *today's* sources to get all those. I think it should be telling you that the system name is 4.9-RC2 if it has (what we think are) all the fixes. (I might be wrong on that, I haven't actually rebuilt my 4.x machine yet this week). On the 5.0 servers, I get page faults. I am going to enable crash dumps on these servers now. I'm having some odd problems with 5.x-current right now, but I haven't been able to figure out what it is yet. In my case, it *might* still be a hardware problem, though it seems odd that I have zero trouble with 4.9 on the same hardware (and my problems with 5.x didn't start until this September). For me, the problem with the 5.x is that the machine completely locks up, which makes it a real hassle. It is also true that a week (or two?) ago there were changes to 5.x which caused problems for many people. Again, make sure you're up-to-the-minute with what you're running. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn= [EMAIL PROTECTED] Senior Systems Programmer or [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rensselaer Polytechnic Instituteor [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
