On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 14:06 -0800, Dwayne MacKinnon wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently upgraded my 8.2-RELEASE box to 9.0-RELEASE using the old-fashioned > cvsup way. I've run into a really strange situation. > > Everything went smoothly with the upgrade. I then deleted all my installed > ports and started reinstalling. I noticed the problem when trying to compile > openjdk6. > > The box would spontaneously reboot. All the time. > > So, I put the following into /etc/rc.conf. I'll repost here, it's entirely > possible I did something wrong: > > dumpdev="/dev/ada0s1b" # Device to crashdump to (device name, AUTO, or > NO). > dumpdir="/usr/crash/" # Directory where crash dumps are to be stored > > I made sure /usr/crash was created and had permissions wide open. Yet, I > never > got any crash dumps (I recreated the reboot several times over.) > > I tried compiling a GENERIC kernel; that failed as well. So I got the DVD > iso, > and copied over the /boot/kernel directory from it. > > Once I did that, i was able to compile a new GENERIC kernel no problem. (I > need to take out the pcn driver; I need le and pcn jumps it.) > > With the slightly-modified GENERIC kernel, the problem has disappeared. I've > compiled openjdk no problem. I tried recompiling my custom kernel and > reinstalled it; the problem reappeared. > > I've attached my kernel config file; there's nothing revolutionary about it. > It's almost identical to the one I used for 8.2-RELEASE, but based on the new > 9.0 GENERIC. Maybe someone here will find it useful. > > A cc would be appreciated as I don't follow -stable. > > Cheers, > DMK
This sounds suspciously like a bug the ports team found on the the 9 RC series. I can't recall where it got fixed, but I'm pretty sure it did *not* make it to the release. You may have better luck with stable/9 instead of 9.0-RELEASE if you can do that. Sean _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
