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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!199.232.136.71!venus.os.com!news.os.com!craigs From: craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2.1.6.1 instability or can cvsup take me to 2.2? Date: Tue, 21 Jan 1997 08:33:20 -0500 Organization: Orbit Systems Lines: 27 Message-ID: <craigs-ya023180002101970833200001@news.os.com> References: <32e18a7d.0@news.os.com> <5bu6sg$fa5@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: titan.os.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.3.1 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34262 In article <5bu6sg$fa5@uriah.heep.sax.de>, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) wrote: > > > So, since -stable is no longer stable for me, can cvsup get me to > > 2.2.x or is it better to install from disks? > > It's no problem to upgrade via the source. Simply do a `make world'. > Don't give up if something unforseeable happens, try to resolve the > problem, and continue with the make/make install. > I've pulled IPFW and QUOTAS out of the build and now the kernel seems stable. I'm going to put them back one at a time to see if I can generate another panic. One question though, could IPFW give you trouble on a machine that's not configured as a router? I'm trying to use IPFW as a simple packet filter on all interfaces (in this case just one Ethernet card). Or, is it possible to just get a bad kernel build? -Craig -- THIS TAG NOT TO BE REMOVED UNDER PENALTY OF LAW EXCEPT BY THE CONSUMER