BETA3 showstoppers (read: critical bugs)
Matthias Andree
ma at dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de
Mon Sep 6 10:03:40 PDT 2004
Hi,
5.3-BETA3 (cvsupped around 1000 UTC today) appears to exhibit multiple
critical problems (haven't yet had the time to figure if its mpsafenet
related, but I only have an Athlon XP 2500+ uniprocessor machine):
- netgraph broken:
1. "ngctl list" lists nothing in spite of an installed ether.bridge.
2. bridge stats broken
3. user-ppp does not find "ether" for ng_pppoe, see PR #71424
- rp-pppoe recently goes into 100% busy wait loop, truss shows:
select(5,{0 3 4},0,0,0) = 1
in a tight loop, which is kind of bogus. Network seems fine though at
first connect. This regression was introduced recently, too.
- rp-pppoe can't reconnect if it's killed (not yet researched into),
apparently related to other network or netgraph problems. It appears
as though rp-pppoe would not see the reply packets from the network
and may be an xl(4) bug.
- xl(4) autoconfig appears to break netgraph, was broken a few weeks ago
and discussed here without solution
workaround: ifconfig xl1 media 10baseT/UTP
I cannot checked if this has been fixed, depends on 71424 being fixed
first.
- a mounted ext2 file system (read-only sufficient) still causes FreeBSD
to not flush its own ufs super blocks at shut down, causing an fsck
run at next reboot.
Workaround: umount all ext2 file systems before reboot/halt.
If I can help to have these fixed, test patches, do some debugging work
whatever, so that BETA4 fixes these, let me know. I know and program in
C but I am not acquainted with the FreeBSD kernel, so please don't
instruct me too tersely.
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Matthias Andree
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