CALL FOR TESTERS! [Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2]

[Guy Brand]

Scott Long (scottl at samsco.org) on 04/10/2006 at 14:49 wrote:

> >    #*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6 date=2006.08.08.09.12.56
> >    # OK
> >    #
> >    #*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6 date=2006.08.08.09.21.00
> >    # BROKEN
> >    ...
> >
> >    #*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6
> >    # BROKEN
> >
> >  From sys commitlogs the culprit commits are:
> >
> >  glebius     2006-08-08 09:19:25 utc
> >  glebius     2006-08-08 09:20:26 utc

> So you tested before these two changes and after these two changes, yes?

  Yes that's it.

> What about with just the first change and not the second?  Anyways, I'm 

  Because building a kernel that only has the first change (2006-08-08
  09:19:25) fails.

> Can you try a quick test?  Reboot and press '6' at the FreeBSD loader
> menu.  That will drop you to a prompt.  Then enter the following line:
> 
> set hint.apic.0.disabled=1

  Done: synced to STABLE-6 of this morning (9:00 UTC)i, made world and
  kernel and boot with APIC disabled. Still same freeze after starting
  X and loading a few tabs in Firefox.

  Thanks for the suggestion Scott.

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