Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 01:10:03 GMT From: mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au (Mark Hannon) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 2.1.0-RELEASE : bus errors, panics, freezes Message-ID: <Do2wKs.Fz@seeware.DIALix.oz.au>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi,
Over the last couple of weeks I have sent a number of questions
in but I am still having problems after a major hardware upgrade.
The HW setup seems to run DOS games & Windows with no problems
but has been acting up under FreeBSD. An attempt to install
linux yesterday ended in a kernel panic using one set of install
disks and funny harddisk errors on the other.
My basic question is: Are all these problems symptoms of some
HW problem I have or are they related to FreeBSD??
My system:
- FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE
- Hippo15 PCI motherboard with 128k WrThrough cache, Award BIOS
- AMD4/120 Mhz CPU
- 24MB RAM (mixture of 8MB of 72pin SIMMs
and 16MB of 30pin SIMMs on
a SIMM converter board)
- Onboard 16550 serial, parallel
- Old ISA I/O card jumpered to sio2 (a 16450) needed to get UUCP
to work reliably.
- Tseng ET4000/W32p video in PCI slot
- Floppy disk
- Conner floppy tape
- Soundblaster Pro + CD-ROM (CR562)
- 3 IDE hard-drives of varying ages
Primary/Master: 1.6 GB EIDE HDD
Primary/Slave: 220MB IDE HDD (oldest)
Seconday/Slave: 410MB IDE HDD (old)
The 1.6GB HDD has: (i) DOS boot partition, (ii) FreeBSD
(iii) An extended partition I was planning
to install Linux on
(iv) OS/2 Boot Manager
The other HDDs are used for additional DOS storage + a newspool.
The problems I have observed:
1) Dump causes bus_errors when dumping to the third HDD. This is
reproducible.
putte:~# dump 3uf - /usr/local | gzip -c -9 > /dos_f/ulocal3
DUMP: Date of this level 3 dump: Mon Mar 11 10:40:55 1996
DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: Sun Mar 3 18:28:49 1996
DUMP: Dumping /dev/rwd0s3f (/usr/local) to standard output
DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
DUMP: estimated 35442 tape blocks.
DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories]
DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files]
DUMP: Broken pipe
DUMP: The ENTIRE dump is aborted.
Bus error (core dumped)
Exectuting the same command sequence and redirecting /dev/null or /home
(located on the first HDD) does not give a bus error.
2) System freezes. I have experienced a number of complete system
freezes whilst running X. The symptoms are that the system locks
completly (although I can still switch VTs and the mouse works)
not allowing me to exec any new programs. After a while I either get
a reboot or I hit reset. There is not usually any disk activity
at these moments.
3) Panic's on shutdown -> vm_page_free: freeing busy page
At more or less regular intervals I am getting panic's upon
shutting down the system. I have never had this problem
before.
putte:/var/crash> gdb -k kernel.2 vmcore.2
GDB is free software and you are welcome to 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.
GDB 4.13 (i386-unknown-freebsd),
Copyright 1994 Free Software Foundation, Inc...(no debugging symbols found)...
IdlePTD 1dc000
current pcb at 1d080c
panic: vm_page_free: freeing busy page
#0 0xf018d285 in boot ()
(kgdb) bt
#0 0xf018d285 in boot ()
#1 0xf0113473 in panic ()
#2 0xf01865de in vm_page_free ()
#3 0xf01841c0 in vm_object_terminate ()
#4 0xf0184028 in vm_object_deallocate ()
#5 0xf01887c6 in pager_cache ()
#6 0xf0189451 in vnode_pager_uncache ()
#7 0xf01893b8 in vnode_pager_umount ()
#8 0xf0128a4a in vfs_unmountroot ()
#9 0xf0128b9a in vfs_unmountall ()
#10 0xf018d217 in boot ()
#11 0xf0111981 in reboot ()
#12 0xf0192723 in syscall ()
#13 0xf018ac4b in Xsyscall ()
#14 0x1b36 in ?? ()
#15 0x187d in ?? ()
#16 0x10d3 in ?? ()
That's all I can think of.
Regards/mark
--
+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+
| Mark Hannon,| FreeBSD - Free Unix for your PC| mark@seeware.DIALix.oz.au|
| Melbourne, | PGP key available by fingering | epamha@epa.ericsson.se |
| Australia | seeware@melbourne.DIALix.oz.au | |
+-=-=-=-=-=-=-+-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Do2wKs.Fz>