FreeBSD10: lock order reversal with portsnap extract

Walter Hurry walterhurry at gmail.com
Sat Jun 1 18:37:52 UTC 2013


On Sat, 01 Jun 2013 20:22:29 +0200, Julian H. Stacey wrote:

> Hi, Reference:
>> From:		Walter Hurry <walterhurry at gmail.com>
>> Date:		Sat, 1 Jun 2013 13:43:47 +0000 (UTC)
> 
> Walter Hurry wrote:
>> I'm installing FreeBSD10 (head; snapshot from 30 May 2013) into a VM.
>> 
>> One of the first things I do is a 'portsnap fetch extract'. As soon as
>> the extract starts it produces a 'lock order reversal' message with a
>> KDB stack backtrace, but then proceeds successfully to verify the
>> integrity and install the ports tree.
>> 
>> Should I worry?
> 
> Yes, you should worry ;-)
> 
> Worry you didn't realise:
> 	a) questions@ list was created originally for beginners b) the so
> 	called 10 is actually current
> 		for that you should subscribe @ ask on current at freebsd.org
> Best go review the descriptions of the 50 odd lists we have on
> @freebsd.org
> 
Oh, OK. Sorry. Will do.



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