Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 11:40:08 +0930 From: Tim Aslat <tim@spyderweb.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Strange SMP problem Message-ID: <20050503114008.0959da15@bofh.spyderweb.com.au>
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Hi All, Just had a strange problem with my desktop. I rebuilt world from sources downloaded a few hours ago, rebooted and everything worked fine. Then I noticed that I had HTT turned off, rebooted, enabled HTT in the bios and booted up again. The system seemed to work ok, until I tried loading several apps under X (mozilla, firefox, dillo, xmms) when they would just freeze. They couldn't be killed, even using kill -9, and none of the windows actually loaded onto the desktop. The desktop itself (fluxbox) loaded perfectly, as did some of the dockapps I have installed. I rebooted again, turned off HTT and lo & behold, everything is working perfectly again. I have SMP compiled into the kernel, however I had the machine in non-HTT mode when I rebuilt world & kernel this morning. Could that have had something to do with it? There were no core dumps, or traces I could do, the system just ground to a halt and had to be hard reset. bofh.zaphod [11:39am] [~] >uname -a FreeBSD bofh.spyderweb.com.au 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #19: Tue May 3 10:19:03 CST 2005 root@bofh.spyderweb.com.au:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BOFH i386 Cheers Tim -- Tim Aslat <tim@spyderweb.com.au> Spyderweb Consulting http://www.spyderweb.com.au Phone: +61 8 84193434 Mobile: +61 0401088479
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