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Date:      Wed, 10 Jun 2009 10:35:10 +0530
From:      wahjava.ml@gmail.com (Ashish SHUKLA)
To:        "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 7.2-RELEASE panics with snd_ds1 loaded.
Message-ID:  <861vpsllvd.fsf@chateau.d.lf>
In-Reply-To: <3a142e750906090634w10e275d3wcaf76f5f117c8f9f@mail.gmail.com> (Paul B. Mahol's message of "Tue, 9 Jun 2009 13:34:56 %2B0000")
References:  <86skifqn2x.fsf@chateau.d.lf> <200906081647.15069.mel.flynn%2Bfbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net> <20090609111703.GA98742@chateau.d.lf> <3a142e750906090634w10e275d3wcaf76f5f117c8f9f@mail.gmail.com>

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Paul B Mahol writes:
> On 6/9/09, Ashish SHUKLA <wahjava.ml@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi Mel,
>>=20
>> Thanks for responding.
>>=20
>> In <200906081647.15069.mel.flynn+fbsd.questions@mailing.thruhere.net>, M=
el
>> Flynn wrote:
>>=20
>> [...]
>>=20
>>> Nothing points to the sound module specifically. The first trace is
>>> unusable
>>> (frames missing) and the second trace panics in sleep, which maybe poin=
ts
>>> to
>>> the sound module and interrupts. Are you not able to panic the system
>>> without
>>> that sound module loaded? It looks too random to blame one module, more
>>> hardware, but it's possible the module exposes a bug elsewhere. From th=
is
>>> though, it is hard to tell.
>>=20
>> Yes, I noticed myself, that there is no reason why to blame 'sound' modu=
le
>> for
>> it. But I noticed my box only panics when there is some activity going on
>> with
>> sound device, like at one time, it paniced when I was trying to record a=
udio
>> using gnome-sound-recorder, and another it paniced when I was playing au=
dio
>> using ogg123. And that it too, it didn't panic immediately after start of
>> operation (playing/recording), but only after some time has elapsed. And=
 the
>> system doesn't panic without snd_ds1 loaded even after building ports (l=
ike
>> openjdk6 and libxul) and using GNOME for 4 hours. BtW, I forgot to menti=
on
>> in
>> last post, but I'm running the GENERIC kernel bundled with 7.2-RELEASE D=
VD.
>>=20
>> I don't know how to resolve and whether this is some kind of memory issu=
e or
>> something else. I also experienced something similar panic situation[1] =
with
>> 8.0-CURRENT which no one else is able to reproduce except me, after whic=
h I
>> installed 7.2-RELEASE. Any ideas how to trace this problem, it is
>> discouraging
>> me to continue using FreeBSD for my regular desktop use ?
>>=20
>> References:
>> [1] -
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2009-April/022048.html

> Does same problem happens on i386?

I've not installed i386 versions of any versions of FreeBSD, as I don't
have any spare box. So I can't say if those problems are reproducible on
i386 also.

> --=20
> Paul

Thanks
=2D-=20
Ashish SHUKLA

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