amd64/148805: [hang] FreeBSD 7.2, 8.0, and 9.0 hang during install at probing devices

[Bruce Cran]

The following reply was made to PR amd64/148805; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, rl001 at pacbell.net
Cc:  
Subject: Re: amd64/148805: [hang] FreeBSD 7.2, 8.0, and 9.0 hang during
 install at probing devices
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:16:21 +0100

 It looks like Int_Open_Disk in libdisk might be getting confused by
 stale metadata in the RAID and going into an infinite loop. I suspect
 this problem will only be solved when the new partition detection logic
 based on gpart is committed.
 
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 Bruce Cran