Re: livelocks and deadlocks on 8.0BETA2

2009-08-22 Thread Eugene Grosbein
Kevin Oberman wrote: Then it got worse. The second time this happened, I inserted an erased DVD while the system was in POST. The system started to boot, but, shortly after probing acd0, while the boot was waiting for: usbus7 usbus6 usbus5 usbus4 usbus3 usbus2 usbus1 usbus0, and about the

Quick 8.0 update: BETA3 builds in progress

2009-08-22 Thread Robert Watson
For those tracking the 8.0 release process, BETA3 builds have now started. They were held up for a few days while a few critical issues were resolved: - Changes to make newbus MPSAFE were reverted as they lead to reports of a number of WITNESS warnings and panics during device driver

Re: Upgrade FreeBSD 7.1 to 7.2

2009-08-22 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Miroslav Lachman wrote: I would like to do a binary upgrade from 7.1 to 7.2. I've seen the instructions here: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.2R/announce.html I've heard that it's safest to start the machine in single user mode when doing upgrades, but I see no notice

RELENG_8: buildworld stops on usr.bin/rpcgen

2009-08-22 Thread R.Mahmatkhanov
Good day! I'm want to build the system from RELENG_8 (BETA3 for now) tree to give it a try. # mv /usr/src /usr/src.old # csup stable-supfile { *default host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org, *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_8 } # cat /etc/make.conf WITH_GECKO=libxul WITH_PYTHON=yes WITHOUT_JAVA=yes

Re: Blocked process

2009-08-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, CmdLnKid wrote: came back or the machine was rebooted. I continued for a while using /var/mail over NFS while setting or unset mail variables for the shell. You may also want to check into whether something is trying to acquire a lock on a file over that NFS mount which

Re: Quick 8.0 update: BETA3 builds in progress

2009-08-22 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 06:04 AM 8/22/2009, Robert Watson wrote: I don't have a specific ETA on BETA3 going out the door, except to say that so far several architectures have reported back on successful builds, so probably quite soon. Just an FYI about builds, the HEAD tinderbox after getting a hardware update

Re: Quick 8.0 update: BETA3 builds in progress

2009-08-22 Thread Pete French
I don't have a specific ETA on BETA3 going out the door, except to say that so far several architectures have reported back on successful builds, so probably quite soon. Is there any point in making bug reports for BETA2 at this point ? I only got to try it a coupleof days ago, and had a big

Re: Quick 8.0 update: BETA3 builds in progress

2009-08-22 Thread Robert Watson
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Pete French wrote: I don't have a specific ETA on BETA3 going out the door, except to say that so far several architectures have reported back on successful builds, so probably quite soon. Is there any point in making bug reports for BETA2 at this point ? I only got to

Re: Blocked process

2009-08-22 Thread Robert Watson
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, CmdLnKid wrote: came back or the machine was rebooted. I continued for a while using /var/mail over NFS while setting or unset mail variables for the shell. You may also want to check into whether something is trying to acquire

Re: Blocked process

2009-08-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Robert Watson wrote: On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, CmdLnKid wrote: came back or the machine was rebooted. I continued for a while using /var/mail over NFS while setting or unset mail variables for the shell. You may also want to