Re: build.sh soft-halts machine on 4.99.49 kernel, with 4.99.48 userland.

[Marc Tooley <netbsdMLpostNO%spam.quake.ca@localhost>]

On Monday 14 January 2008, Marc Tooley wrote:
> On Sunday 13 January 2008, Marc Tooley wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:33:05PM -0800, Marc Tooley wrote:
> > >> I'll double-check the actual filesystem type (v1 or v2.. I think
> > >> it was newfs -o time -O 2) tonight, as it's paused again.
> > >
> > > Looks like you are using softdep - I fixed a problem yesterday
> > > that could have caused this. Can you please update your kernel
> > > sources and try again?
>
> [...]
>
> > Well, at least I have a working system again! Thanks for the hint.
> > If you need more testing, or if it looks like I managed to build a
> > kernel without your fix in it, please let me know.
> >
> > -Marc
>
> ..turns out it just prolongs the problem a bit, and then does exactly
> the same freeze, even with a patched kernel. If you need any further
> information from me please let me know. I have lots of spare machines
> at home to do tests on.
>
> -Marc

Here's a new error message I haven't seen before:

:shog:01:32:52 /v/4.0$ scp 
marc@khan:/v/b/soft/netbsd/netbsd-4/REL/i386/binary/sets/\* ./
pipe: Too many open files in system

... while I was remotely attempting to install 4.0_STABLE on the machine 
instead. Doh.