From owner-freebsd-current Fri Mar 8 15:31:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mrout2.yahoo.com (mrout2.yahoo.com [216.145.54.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4286B37B484; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 15:30:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from zoot.corp.yahoo.com (zoot.corp.yahoo.com [216.145.52.89]) by mrout2.yahoo.com (8.11.6/8.11.6/y.out) with ESMTP id g28NUfE79145; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 15:30:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dougb@localhost) by zoot.corp.yahoo.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g28NUfB34470; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 15:30:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@FreeBSD.org) Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 15:30:41 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton X-X-Sender: dougb@zoot.corp.yahoo.com To: Thomas Moestl Cc: Murray Stokely , , Subject: Re: Preparing innocent users for -current In-Reply-To: <20020308220035.GA4209@crow.dom2ip.de> Message-ID: <20020308152055.M34305-100000@zoot.corp.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 8 Mar 2002, Thomas Moestl wrote: > On Fri, 2002/03/08 at 11:23:36 -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > > 3. xconsole causes periodic panics. The problem (according to BDE) is "a > > well-know bug in printf(9)," caused by "The TIOCCONS ioctl ... panics when > > printf() is called while sched_lock is held." I reported this bug in > > October 2001, if anyone wants to look through the archives. > > While this issue is still present, printf()s with sched_lock held seem > to fortunately be quite rare. IIRC your panics were caused by the > "microuptime went backwards" message, which was recently removed. The > only other relatively frequently reported printf() in this category I > can think of at the moment is for the "calcru: negative time..." > message. Well, I have a fairly verbose console on some of my systems, which is why I think I panic'ed with this problem more than most. Given that we're opening things to a wider audience, this should be listed as a gotcha, even if it only affects a small percentage of users. -- "We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, ... we will see freedom's victory." - George W. Bush, President of the United States State of the Union, January 28, 2002 Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message