HEADS UP: Status of the 5.2 release

[Doug Barton]

Do we have an updated status on this? I just got my new laptop, so I was 
going to burn an ISO of the latest RC and give it a try, but if it's 
going to blow up on install I don't want to waste time...

Doug


Scott Long wrote:
> All,
> 
> As I mentioned yesterday, we have a serious show-stopper for the 5.2
> release.  Jeff Roberson and Doug White did some good diagnosis work a
> few nights ago, but we are still without a fix.  We cannot cut 5.2 until
> this gets resolved.  I know that this is the end of the year and
> everyone has deadlines, family, travel, etc, but we really need some
> more eyes on this.  To recap, a panic happens from sysinstall while
> unpacking the bin distribution.  It is most readily created by enabling
> SoftUpdates on the root partition, but there are reports that SU is not
> a required factor.  The panic originates in the fsync codepath and
> ends with a corrupt mutex.  This is discussed on the freebsd-current@
> mailing under the subject of "HAVE TRACE & DDB Re: FreeBSD 5.2-RC1
> released".  Any help is appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> The Release Engineering Team
>