kern/59792: 5.2-BETA: softupdates enabled on / kills installation

[Simon L. Nielsen]

The following reply was made to PR kern/59792; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at FreeBSD.org>
To: dsf at globalcrossing.net
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/59792: 5.2-BETA: softupdates enabled on / kills installation
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 20:25:25 +0100

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 On 2003.11.29 10:40:41 -0500, dsf at globalcrossing.net wrote:
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 > 	I have given this PR the category critical/high because it
 > 	completely breaks installation in an unrecoverable way, and
 
 I agree this is a show-stopper for 5.2.
 
 > 	5.2-RELEASE is slated to be the first production-quality
 > 	FreeBSD v5 release, so...
 
 Well, actually 5.3 will (probably) be first "-STABLE" from the 5.X
 series, see the 5-ROADMAP article for more information.
 
 > 	5.2-BETA installer crashes into DDB when it's about to start
 > 	extracting files from base/base.ag if softupdates is enabled
 > 	for the / filesystem.
 
 This also happens for me with the "official" 5.2-BETA image.
 
 Mine died at a different place in the extraction process, but the
 traceback seems to be the same.
 
 I just tried an install where I didn't enable softupdates on the root
 partition, it didn't panic but during the install it did give an locking
 warning/error.  I will try to get a serial console on it to capture the
 exact error.
 
 --=20
 Simon L. Nielsen
 FreeBSD Documentation Team
 
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