Re: 4.0.1 -> 5.0

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article 
<ab7b49bc0905011420n7ec2e6e4w998f640b9c4c813e%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
Neal Hogan  <nealhogan%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>This is my first time upgrading a netBSD system. I've had 4.0.1 on it
>for a while and it's a pretty old laptop (mid 90's) and,
>unsurprisingly,  pretty slow.  I'm working through
>http://www.netbsd.org/docs/current/#installing227 and booting the new
>GENERIC i386 kernel is taking . . . well . . . forever. I realize that
>my machine is slow and am accounting for that, but the "building
>databases" part of the boot took over night and "clearing /tmp" seems
>to be taking about as long. The system is minimum . . . base, system
>comp.

Something is wrong with the new kernel, perhaps time related or interrupts.

Can you give us a dmesg output?

christos