From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 15 19:37:18 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F09616A400 for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:37:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from trebestie@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C9B113C43E for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:37:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from trebestie@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id j37so1295214waf for ; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:37:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=MCOoMw7b4BqsubMgEzl9G2G2mL17ne3EkUSYQfSJduNBO96136FFdSAuF+vnD8AF+uvXfz0mV3B8J9NvHj0gK9WRlu2He6UAu1XLC/FKmZJ7Nn5sQ5miI3XpTFWGFbSYZzXRceBII6TDoSzqR9Sh6gAeb7xq74AsMxUh2aGPrg8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=X8Zk4iB59Smf45d3EW1iCoR7+th3BlkVUiq2Q3N+gNJBVm2lZhVfJPe2jMOM51bFIt8O60sOVRgR42LFrApw/yJhEgk0jtoqlLePpcApgMHfT3nBTDxZTdBoABZQ0fEPgBjkLd/NvZg1hD8RNOKkfxChzz+0XsCiNXlaHi1QV7g= Received: by 10.114.133.1 with SMTP id g1mr3353213wad.1181936237906; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:37:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.47.12 with HTTP; Fri, 15 Jun 2007 12:37:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <83e5fb980706151237j6f4b31adjf5399dfd4b9de37a@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 21:37:17 +0200 From: "Diego Depaoli" To: current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20070615203136.402a2df5.garyj@jennejohn.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1181929982.1086.6.camel@worf> <20070615203136.402a2df5.garyj@jennejohn.org> Cc: Subject: Re: recent nvidia-driver trouble X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:37:18 -0000 2007/6/15, Gary Jennejohn : > On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 19:53:02 +0200 > Pascal Hofstee wrote: > > > Sometime during the last week i have started to encounter trouble with > > my system locking up trying to switch from X to console, but only when > > using the nvidia-driver kernel module. Using the plain "nv" driver > > works without any problems ... When the lock up happens the system > > seems to no longer respond to keyboard input etc. (haven't been able > > to confirm wether or not remote access is still possible). > > > > Is anybody else experiencing similar problems out there ... this has > > used to work for months without problems ... i made sure to force a > > reinstall of the nvidia-driver port on every new kernel install but > > that just doesn't seem to solve the problem either. Me too > > > > I've seen this also. It's a panic due to a NULL-pointer dereference > someplace in the nvidia-driver. I suspect that it's related to the > recent locking/mutex/whatever changes but can't prove it. All the > crash dumps which I have are corrupted so I can't do a backtrace :-( I agree. This time nvidia-driver and xorg-server rebuild doesn't solve the problem. -- Diego Depaoli