Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 23:45:14 -0600 (CST) From: Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> To: Bryan Liesner <bleez@verizon.net> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: panic on boot (devfs_find) Message-ID: <XFMail.20030314234514.conrads@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <20030314075657.E1432@gravy.kishka.net>
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On 14-Mar-2003 Bryan Liesner wrote: > > > I made posts here recently describing some panics which are somehow > related to disappearing/never created device nodes. I am unable to > produce a core dump at all, as it panics before / is mounted. > The documented kern.dumpdev (unknown oid) doesn't exist and > setting dumpdev=ad0s1b in loader.conf doesn't help either. > > I compiled the faulty kernel with ddb and found that the failure was > in devfs_find(). I'm trying to gather more information. Any tips on > how to get a proper core dump would be appreciated. > > As described in my earlier posts, this started happening sometime > shortly after commits done after 3/10/2003. > > Now, really, am I the only one experiencing this? No, you're not. I've been unable to get a bootable kernel running for the last few days also. Booting in verbose mode, I see the last thing that occurs just before the panic is mounting root and then starting (or trying to start) /sbin/init. After an initial "hang", it drops into ddb. -- Conrad Sabatier <conrads@cox.net> - "In Unix veritas" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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