FreeBSD 7 beta1 is buggy

Posted on October 28th, 2007 by Yousef Ourabi

I downloaded the Beta 1 release — and a bit to my concern the amd64 is quite buggy on my box. I did a fresh install from the CD, so I know it is not cruft left over from my previous system. I installed everything from the iso called: “” — but installing some packages failed — I ok’d my way through it. Once the I reboot into my new system, things weren’t much better. I did a portsnap fetch, portsnap extract, and pkg_add -r xorg. Upon running startx, the console turned green, and X11 barfed with a fairly scary message about some memory access error. Tools like portsdb and portversion couldn’t parse the output from uname because instead of Freebsd-7-beta1 it was freebsd-1-beta1.5

After doing a cvsup on RELENG_7 and rebuilding world and the kernel, things seem to have cleared up — but the state of the install from the CD seems dubious at best.

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