Not all FTP sites have the first release candidate, but it is at least
available from ftp.freebsd.org. Please download and install this
candidate and help us find bugs BEFORE we call it 4.9-RELEASE.
ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RC1
ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.9-RC1-i386-disc1.iso
We are particularly interested in having people test this release
candidate on a heavily loaded system, or on large memory machines, so
that the stability of the PAE merge can be tested.
linux-netscape and acroread5 were removed from the ISO because they
won't fit. Suggestions about less popular packages to remove to save
space would be appreciated.
Thanks,
- Murray
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On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 08:19:05AM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote:> Not all FTP sites have the first release candidate, but it is at least > available from ftp.freebsd.org. Please download and install this > candidate and help us find bugs BEFORE we call it 4.9-RELEASE.<sarcasm> You mean apart from the minor bug that non-pci kernels using ata won't even compile, and hasn't worked for the last three weeks or so? </sarcasm> See http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=44649+0+archive/2003/freebsd-stable/20030928.freebsd-stable or http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=816008+0+archive/2003/cvs-all/20030921.cvs-all for details and a patch.> > ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RC1 > ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.9-RC1-i386-disc1.iso > > We are particularly interested in having people test this release > candidate on a heavily loaded system, or on large memory machines, so > that the stability of the PAE merge can be tested. > > linux-netscape and acroread5 were removed from the ISO because they > won't fit. Suggestions about less popular packages to remove to save > space would be appreciated.Is there a list somewhere detailing which packages *are* included on the ISO and thus might be considered for removal? -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 06:09:05PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote:> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 08:19:05AM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote:[snip]> > ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RC1 > > ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.9-RC1-i386-disc1.iso > > > > We are particularly interested in having people test this release > > candidate on a heavily loaded system, or on large memory machines, so > > that the stability of the PAE merge can be tested. > > > > linux-netscape and acroread5 were removed from the ISO because they > > won't fit. Suggestions about less popular packages to remove to save > > space would be appreciated. > > Is there a list somewhere detailing which packages *are* included on > the ISO and thus might be considered for removal?See the src/release/scripts/print-cdrom-packages.sh script. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev roam@ringlet.net roam@sbnd.net roam@FreeBSD.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint FDBA FD79 C26F 3C51 C95E DF9E ED18 B68D 1619 4553 What would this sentence be like if pi were 3? -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20030929/3ab39f20/attachment.bin
On 2003.09.29 08:19:05 -0700, Murray Stokely wrote:> Not all FTP sites have the first release candidate, but it is at least > available from ftp.freebsd.org. Please download and install this > candidate and help us find bugs BEFORE we call it 4.9-RELEASE.I get two messeage boxes, just after kernel initialization and before the main sysinstall menu saying: Loading module if_fwe.ko failed Ethernet over FireWire and Loading module sbp.ko failed SBP-2 SCSI over FireWire The installation work fine after that. -- Simon L. Nielsen FreeBSD Documentation Team -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20030929/16e980a9/attachment.bin
At 8:19 AM -0700 2003/09/29, Murray Stokely wrote:>Not all FTP sites have the first release candidate, but it is at least >available from ftp.freebsd.org. Please download and install this >candidate and help us find bugs BEFORE we call it 4.9-RELEASE. > >ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RC1 >ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.9-RC1-i386-disc1.iso > >We are particularly interested in having people test this release >candidate on a heavily loaded system, or on large memory machines, so >that the stability of the PAE merge can be tested.I did a serial install on an HP Pavilion 7915 (a 1.1GHz Celeron I started with 4.5-RELEASE on, and have done dozens of installs on although never before via the serial port), and ended up with a scrambled boot block. When I choose vt100 (option #2), the display is scrambled (lines wrap, option titles shift up and down when using the arrows, and get out of sync with the descriptions on the right side). With ANSI (option #1), I couldn't move into the main options area -- all 4 arrows, as well as tab, ask me if I really wanted to abort, and there's no visible way to do anything but exit. Anyway, I thought I accepted the default BootMgr option (under vt100 mode), and I was definitely using it under 4.9-PRE before running sysinstall, but when I was done F2 wouldn't start FreeBSD (off disk2s2a -- F1 started Windows okay, but that's not useful). I was able to boot the 4.9RC1 CD, and then load and boot the kernel off disk2s2a. When trying a more complete install via the PS/2 keyboard and onboard video, I got an error that rep-gtk2-0.17_2,1 was a dependency but couldn't be found, and sawfish2-1.3_3,2 aborted install with error 1. The sawfish error told me to check the debug screen for more info, but didn't say how to do so. I tried cycling through consoles; Ctl-Alt-F2 showed the rep-gtk2 error but no sawfish error; F4 showed a prompt, and F1 brought me back to the installer, but F3 (as well as F5 and above) just beeped, without showing the display. Long term, the error mentioning the debug screen should say how to get there. Similar failure on openldap-client-2.1.22 (error 1); apparently there's a conflict with openldap-client-2.0.27, already installed as a dependency for something else (according to the output on F2). Additional unspecified errors on kdelibs-3.1.3, & kdeaddons-3.1.4. At this point, it cycled around through the same openldap & kde errors several times (5 full rounds or so), before continuing back to the main sysinstall menu. When I tried to configure XFree86 Desktop, and selected KDE, I got the same openldap & kde* errors... Despite all this, the non-serial install completed and rebooted into F2 FreeBSD successfully. I'll repeat the serial install tomorrow, to see if I can reproduce the broken boot manager behavior. Regards, Chris Pepper -- Chris Pepper: <http://www.reppep.com/~pepper/> Rockefeller University: <http://www.rockefeller.edu/>
Murray Stokely wrote:> We are particularly interested in having people test this release > candidate on a heavily loaded system, or on large memory machines, so > that the stability of the PAE merge can be tested.Recent 4.9-PRERELEASE panics reproducible on a heavily loaded ata(4)-system: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/57174 I'll update to 4.9-RC1 and retest, but PR was not touched so I guess the bug is not fixed. Eugene Grosbein
[CC'ed Martin Blapp since he was the last one who touched amd] On Mon, 29-Sep-2003 at 08:19:05 -0700, Murray Stokely wrote:> Not all FTP sites have the first release candidate, but it is at least > available from ftp.freebsd.org. Please download and install this > candidate and help us find bugs BEFORE we call it 4.9-RELEASE.Just tracked down a nasty bug when using amd to mount msdos filesystems. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=57401 -Andre
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 06:09:05PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote:> Is there a list somewhere detailing which packages *are* included on > the ISO and thus might be considered for removal?/usr/src/release/scripts/print-cdrom-packages.sh - Murray
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 08:19:05AM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote:> Not all FTP sites have the first release candidate, but it is at least > available from ftp.freebsd.org. Please download and install this > candidate and help us find bugs BEFORE we call it 4.9-RELEASE. > > ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RC1 > ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.9-RC1-i386-disc1.isoI have put up a 4.9-RC1 for Alpha (now really an RC1 given that newvers.sh has been bumped). It is available at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/ISO-IMAGES/4.9-RC1-alpha-miniinst.iso It does _not_ have packages, and I will put the RC1 tree at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/alpha/4.9-RC1 as soon as I can get it there via my ADSL link (ETA sometime tomorrow UTC) Please test and provide feedback, tnx Wilko -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 08:19:05AM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote:> We are particularly interested in having people test this release > candidate on a heavily loaded system, or on large memory machines, so > that the stability of the PAE merge can be tested.ata_dmasetup related panic is reproducible on 4.8-RC1. Eugene Grosbein
At 8:19 AM -0700 2003/09/29, Murray Stokely wrote:>Not all FTP sites have the first release candidate, but it is at least >available from ftp.freebsd.org. Please download and install this >candidate and help us find bugs BEFORE we call it 4.9-RELEASE. > >ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RC1 >ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.9-RC1-i386-disc1.iso > >We are particularly interested in having people test this release >candidate on a heavily loaded system, or on large memory machines, so >that the stability of the PAE merge can be tested.Another data point; I thought rc1.iso had the USB / fork1 fix, but switching my KVM (detaching its USB hub) away from the FreeBSD system during dmesg spew crashed it twice. I will also try to reproduce this in more detail tonight. Chris Pepper -- Chris Pepper: <http://www.reppep.com/~pepper/> Rockefeller University: <http://www.rockefeller.edu/>
On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Eugene Grosbein wrote:> On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 08:19:05AM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote: > > > We are particularly interested in having people test this release > > candidate on a heavily loaded system, or on large memory machines, so > > that the stability of the PAE merge can be tested. > > ata_dmasetup related panic is reproducible on 4.8-RC1.Care to elaborate? -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
On 2003-Sep-29 18:09:05 +0200, Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> wrote:>On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 08:19:05AM -0700, Murray Stokely wrote: >> Not all FTP sites have the first release candidate, but it is at least >> available from ftp.freebsd.org. Please download and install this >> candidate and help us find bugs BEFORE we call it 4.9-RELEASE. > ><sarcasm> >You mean apart from the minor bug that non-pci kernels using ata won't even >compile, and hasn't worked for the last three weeks or so? ></sarcasm> > >See > >http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=44649+0+archive/2003/freebsd-stable/20030928.freebsd-stable > >or > >http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=816008+0+archive/2003/cvs-all/20030921.cvs-all > >for details and a patch.Whilst both Erik and I independently came up with the same patch, upon reflection, I'm not sure that this is the correct patch. None of the callers to ata_dmastart() check for a return value and therefore this probably should be a void function - so the code in ata-isa.c is correct and the remaining declaration and definitions are incorrect. In either case, I would request that this be fixed before 4.9-RELEASE. Peter
Murray Stokely <murray@freebsd.org> writes:> ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/4.9-RC1 > ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/4.9-RC1-i386-disc1.iso > > We are particularly interested in having people test this release > candidate on a heavily loaded system, or on large memory machines, so > that the stability of the PAE merge can be tested.Well, I did an FTP install (rather than ISO) from ftp7.de.freebsd.org and it went mostly smooth, two issues: 1. ports collection is claimed to not be found (what the heck...) but some INDEX file is available, so pkg_add works. 2. at some point in time, usually around "Remaking all devices", the machine throws a handful of segfaults and boom. I'm unsure whether this might be the hardware, it's an old Cyrix MII/233 (PR300) Super7 CPU in a VIA MVP3 board (PCChips M577), 32 MB PC66 + 64 MB PC100 RAM (66 MHz FSB), nothing "server-class", but it seems to be fine even under load with SuSE Linux 8.1 or 8.2 (dual-boot). -- Matthias Andree Encrypt your mail: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95
Andre Albsmeier wrote:> > [CC'ed Martin Blapp since he was the last one who touched amd] > > On Mon, 29-Sep-2003 at 08:19:05 -0700, Murray Stokely wrote: > > Not all FTP sites have the first release candidate, but it is at least > > available from ftp.freebsd.org. Please download and install this > > candidate and help us find bugs BEFORE we call it 4.9-RELEASE. > > Just tracked down a nasty bug when using amd to mount msdos > filesystems. > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=57401I've sent a patch to the commiter restoring binary compatibility. Eugene Grosbein
Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com> writes:> MA> memtest 3.0 passes without finding anything. CPU cooler is also > MA> working. I'll now try FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-<mumble> and see if it > MA> segfaults as well. > > I once had a machine that would fail reliably (every X days) running > BSD/OS. Running FreeBSD it would go for a couple of weeks. Running > RedHat it would just run and run and run.Now, one more data point: FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE doesn't show segfaults during install and shortly before remaking /dev entries. During both installs, 4.8-REL and 4.9-RC1, I've seen one package install abort prematurely, with 4.8-REL, 't was Kerberos IV. I don't recall what failed with 4.9-RC1. BTW, I fdisk'ed and disklabel'ed fine, but I didn't install a MBR (because it's a dual-boot machine with GRUB stage1 in the MBR). ANY efforts to boot 4.8-REL or 4.9-RC1 via chainloader fail. I'm using something like: root (hd0,2,a) chainloader +1 boot I'm getting "Not UFS" from the loader. The computer has one of these broken AWARD BIOS 4.51PG versions that lock up when a drive >32GB is attached, so it's using Ontrack Dynamic Drive Overlay V9.55. Any known issues with that?> I wouldn't rule out hardware problems even if linux runs fine on it.OK, point taken.> The thing I like about Dell hardware is that they have these *really* > nifty diagnostics that pinpoint the most amazing little things, down > to the individual chip in some instances.I'd rather not ask about the price for Dell replacement parts after the warranty has expired or is refused for the particular defect... -- Matthias Andree Encrypt your mail: my GnuPG key ID is 0x052E7D95
This bug is still in RC2. Do I need to file a PR to get it fixed? On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Simon L. Nielsen wrote:> On 2003.09.29 08:19:05 -0700, Murray Stokely wrote: > > Not all FTP sites have the first release candidate, but it is at least > > available from ftp.freebsd.org. Please download and install this > > candidate and help us find bugs BEFORE we call it 4.9-RELEASE. > > I get two messeage boxes, just after kernel initialization and before > the main sysinstall menu saying: > > Loading module if_fwe.ko failed > Ethernet over FireWire > > and > > Loading module sbp.ko failed > SBP-2 SCSI over FireWire > > The installation work fine after that. > >-- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org