Re: Stability issues with recent NetBSD 9.0_BETA amd64

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 at 18:18, David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
>  On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 at 17:02, David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 at 18:38, matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost> wrote:
> > >
> > > > I've been playing with NetBSD 9.0_BETA amd64 from nyftp on a laptop for a
> > > > little while and noticed a significant drop in stability sometime after Aug
> > > > 18 (I have an Aug 18 kernel which seems solid, but Sep 2, 7 and 10 also
> > > > panic)
> > >
> > > i am hoping this problem is already fixed in -current and on
> > > netbsd-9 with this pullup:
> > >
> > >    http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2019/09/13/msg108959.html
> > >
> > > can you at least see if the ure issue is resolved now?
> >
> > The 20190915 nyftp build identifies as "NetBSD 9.0_BETA (GENERIC) #0:
> > Fri Sep 13 07:02:22 UTC 2019", so
> > I'm not certain if its picked that change up - I notice there is now a
> > 201909170430Z build so I'll download and
> > switch to that this evening -- thanks.
>
> The kernel in 201909170430Z is the same, but it has usbnet.c,v
> 1.25.2.3 which matches that pullup, so should be good. I should just
> have checked 'ident /netbsd' to start with...I'm away from my ure at
> the moment, but that lets me give it a good test without before
> connecting.

Looks like the system is stable both with and without ure with those
latest changes - many thanks.

(netbsd-8 firefox binary on netbsd-9 is still unhappy in a different
way, but thats just firefox :)

David