Re: Midnight crashes

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 04:03:24PM -0500, Marcello Balduccini wrote:
> > > I have been running NetBSD/xen as Dom0 and (my only) DomU for the last
> > > few days, and it has been running great, except for the fact that the
> > > computer panics exactly once every night, *always* around midnight (more
> > > precisely, I think it is between 12:13am and 12:16am). 
> > >
> > > I am running NetBSD from the 20050408-3.0_BETA binary snapshot. 
> > >
> > Hum, please update your domU kernel to the last 3.0_BETA sources.
> > YAMAMOTO Takashi fixed an issue with pool corruption in xennet a few days
> > ago, it has been pulled up to the 3.0 branch yesterday.
> 
> Interesting: I checked out the sources via cvs, compiled the new kernel and 
> rebooted the system. uname -r says 3.99.3 rather than 3.0_BETA. Am I missing 
> something?

Yes, '-r netbsd-3' argument to CVS :)
but 3.99.3 should work too, and has some additionnal fixes.
Long term, it may be better to stay on the netbsd-3 branch is this is intended
to be a production system, though.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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