From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 13 11:44:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4560937B400 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:44:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow057o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.94]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27AEF43E3B for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:44:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sasquatch@canuck.co.uk) Received: from pcow057o.blueyonder.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Fri, 13 Sep 2002 19:44:53 +0100 Received: from sasq.myftp.org (unverified [80.195.226.27]) by pcow057o.blueyonder.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.9) with SMTP id for ; Fri, 13 Sep 2002 19:44:53 +0100 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 18:54:11 +0100 From: "James C. Russell" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: trace from lockup under 4.6.2-release Message-Id: <20020913185411.5a422c82.sasquatch@canuck.co.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.2claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've experienced several lockups under 4.6.0 and now 4.6.2. these have happened whilst running ogle, mplayer, xscreensaver, and xmms under X/wmaker. I've followed the developer-handbook section on kernel debugging to produce the following details. In each case the system stops responding to user input, caps lock & ctl-alt-backspace have no effect. Is this enough info to trace the fault? if not how should I proceed. Thanks for any help! - James Checking for core dump: savecore: reboot after panic: vdrop: holdcnt Sep 13 15:23:00 meanie savecore: reboot after panic: vdrop: holdcnt savecore: system went down at Fri Sep 13 15:00:04 2002 savecore: /var/crash/bounds: No such file or directory savecore: writing core to /var/crash/vmcore.0 savecore: writing kernel to /var/crash/kernel.0 meanie# cd /usr/src/sys/compile/MEANIE/ meanie# gdb -k GNU gdb 4.18 (FreeBSD) Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-unknown-freebsd". (kgdb) symbol-file kernel.debug Reading symbols from kernel.debug...done. (kgdb) exec-file /var/crash/kernel.0 (kgdb) core-file /var/crash/vmcore.0 IdlePTD at phsyical address 0x00390000 initial pcb at physical address 0x002f4ba0 panicstr: vdrop: holdcnt panic messages: --- dmesg: kernel message buffer has different magic number --- #0 dumpsys () at ../../kern/kern_shutdown.c:487 487 if (dumping++) { (kgdb) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message