Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:13:31 +0100 From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0-BETA2 DRM/witness panic: Assertion j < 1000 failed at /usr/src/sys/kern/subr_witness.c:1513 Message-ID: <1128078811.4002.3.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20050929163541.GA53754@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1123588622.893.15.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <200508091050.21811.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <1123603336.897.3.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <200509291210.38799.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <1128011075.44550.21.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <1128011524.44550.26.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <20050929163541.GA53754@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 12:35 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 05:32:03PM +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 17:24 +0100, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > > > On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 12:10 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > On Tuesday 09 August 2005 12:02 pm, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > > > > > On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 10:50 -0400, John Baldwin wrote: > > > > > > On Tuesday 09 August 2005 07:57 am, Gavin Atkinson wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I have a regular panic (3 times a day) on a system running 6.0-BETA2 > > > > > > > which was very stable under 5.4. dmesg available at > > > > > > > http://www.devrandom.co.uk/freebsd/dmesg-buffy-20050809 . The panic > > > > > > > seems to relate to DRM, I have a ATI Radeon QY RV100 7000/VE card. > > > > > > > > > > > > Do a 'show witness', it looks like witness has a cycle somehow. Normally > > > > > > these can only occur if there is a cycle in the static lock order. > > > > > > > > > > http://www.devrandom.co.uk/freebsd/sh-witness-buffy-20050809 > > > > > > > > > > Gavin > > > > > > > > Do you still get this panic on more recent 6.0? > > > > > > I do with BETA3 from Sept 6th. I'll update again (after re-adding > > > WITNESS etc to GENERIC) and test it again. > > > > I should have said that I also stepped back in time several times, and > > was still getting the panic with kernel from sources dated April 15th, > > ruling out the major DRM upgrade in July. I couldn't get any of the > > screensavers that easily provoke the panic to run on a pre-April 15th > > system, even after recompiling all ports. > > You're not using modules, right? Or at least, you're remembering to > recompile them all each time you update your kernel? No, all fully in sync. I suspect it may have had something to do with a shared library bump that I hadn't noticed or something, although deleting all of the newer (I was going backwards) shared libs that I could find before the ports recompile didn't help. As this machine is essential to my daily work (and Gnome etc also became unreliable), I couldn't afford to spend any more time looking into it. Gavin
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