Re: is RELENG_5 Borked?

From: Julian Elischer (julian_at_elischer.org)
Date: 11/15/04

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To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>

    Julian Elischer wrote:
    >
    > I upgraded my Dell Inspiron 7500 to RELENG_5 and have been seeing all
    > sorts of problems.
    > Previously it was running 5.3 beta7 and seemed happy with that.
    >
    > the symptoms..
    > boot to single user succeeds.
    > however if the filesyste,s do not need cleaning (?)
    > it will freeze solit part way through going to multi-user..
    > usually just after printing "preserving vi files" (or whatever the
    > actual message is).
    >
    > However if the filesystems DO need checking.
    > it says that te filesyste, wil be checked in background,
    > and that background fsck will be started in 60 seconds, and teh boot
    > succeeds
    > all the way to multi user mode.
    >
    > Once there, though I have to live with the slowdown of the fsck running...
    >
    > Even before fsck starts however, everything appears VERY slow. The mouse
    > reponds slowly and jerkily.
    >
    > This was all not true with 5.3B7 so it's a recent change..

    Going back to 5.3RELEASE fixes it..
    I have no clue as to the problem.. the system freezes absolutly
    from yesterday's RELENG_5 or doesn't fail. No debugger, no dump etc..

    >
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