powerd causing crash on Mini-ITX EN1200

[Markus Hitter]

Am 26.02.2009 um 18:44 schrieb Ross Penner:

> When I enable powerd, it is only but a matter of time before my
> machine will lock up completely. I've had this problem since I've
> migrated to FreeBSD 7 from 6. FreeBSD 6 never seemed to have any
> problems.

As FreeBSD Stable is a continuous development, you have good chances  
to narrow down the culprit by bisecting. The assumption is, one  
single SVN commit broke your functionality and you just have to find  
out which one.

Get sources from SVN, then switch to the earliest Stable/7 to confirm  
your assumption ("it broke with 7"). If it works, check out a few  
thousand SVN revisions later, try again. If it doesn't work, switch  
to an earlier revision, a late Stable/6. Each step cuts the number of  
SVN revisions in question in half, after some 10 or 12 iterations  
you're down to a single revision.

Having a single revision pretty much directly points you to what the  
problem is. This helps developers very much and with some luck you  
can reverse-apply this change to a more recent set of the sources.


MarKus

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