[haiku-development] Re: [Announcement] R1A4.1? Follow up to R1A4 to correct some issues seen by end users.
- From: Isak Andersson <IcePapih@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 15:59:55 +0100
I may as well add the things that I experienced to this.
On my desktop I can no longer boot Haiku, weather it's my old installation of a
pre alpha 4 build. The computer just reboots and I can't figure out why. I've
experienced the same thing before about a year ago, but for some reason I did
not have this problem when I came back to Haiku.
On my laptop when I try to boot the new Alpha, the splash screen does it's
thing and after that the white debug thing appears telling me that there's been
a Kernel panic. It seemed to have something to do with a network library or
something. The laptop has been able to boot Haiku just before the new Alpha
came out with the pre builds, the only issue then has been that the screen
flickers a lot, but now it can't even boot. I'll probably file a bug report on
this with more info when I get the chance!
Cheers!
Alexander von Gluck IV <kallisti5@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Good morning!
>
>So, there have been quite a few reported issues with the R1A4 release.
>The actual "number" of issues is small, but quite a few people have
>seen them.
>
>During my testing these issues were few and far between... we had
>several
>people testing the pre-R1A4 images and no one could reproduce what I
>was seeing.
>
>Given all the eyes on R1A4 however, we have had several people report
>the issues
>I initially saw.
>
>The major issues seen are generally as follows:
>
> 1) Networking deadlock.
> On boot of the CD, sometimes the Deskbar can freeze up.
> Opening a terminal and running ifconfig will result it hanging
>forever
> #9128, #9148
>
> Solution: Rene was able to nail this down in hrev44832.. a pretty
>simple fix
> for a major problem.
>
> 2) PCI bus manager gets loaded twice.
> I never saw this in my tests... however it seems to happen when the
>following
> conditions are met:
> * PCI bus manager gets loaded twice (bad, but doesn't guarantee
>a crash)
> * A PCI device has MSI support and we use it. (crash)
> #8684, #9139, #9153
>
> Solution: mmlr is working through a fix right now to see if he can
>solve it
> in the short term.
>
>Given the potential scope of users that will see these issues, and the
>fact that
>we don't want to dilute the importance of this release... Ryan and
>myself both
>agree that an updated R1A4 image would be wise.
>
>Generally an updated R1A4 image (R1A4.1?) would replace the existing
>R1A4 image
>on the website.
>
>This will solve the following situations:
>
> * User couldn't boot? Download the new image and give it a go...
>issues fixed.
> * User already installed? Download the new image and install it over
>your R1A4
> installation (to "upgrade" it)... any potential for issues down the
>road solved.
>
>The general timeline is as soon as #2 is solved. We want to get this
>out the door
>sooner rather then later.
>
>I do want to apologize for not seeing this before R1A4. I had the poor
>
>luck that
>none of my 5 test machines were effected by these bugs. (1 showed up
>briefly and
>quickly disappeared on one machine, 2 was occurring on all of my
>machines but didn't
>result in a crash)
>
>Feedback welcome.
>
>Thanks!
> -- Alexander von Gluck
>
>
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