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Date:      Wed, 26 May 2010 13:26:35 -0500
From:      Brandon Gooch <jamesbrandongooch@gmail.com>
To:        "Sean C. Farley" <scf@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, Beat Gaetzi <beat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: VirtualBox 3.2.0-beta-1 fails to compile on -current
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On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 11:45 AM, Sean C. Farley <scf@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 26 May 2010, Beat Gaetzi wrote:
>
>> We received a few reports from users that 3.2.0 panics the host when
>> loading the kernel module. This is the reason why we haven't announced a=
 CFT
>> for 3.2.0 yet.
>
> On those hosts, did /boot/modules/linker.hints get generated
> correctly/completely? =A0I have seen, at least from the subversion tree, =
a
> very small linker.hints file where I need to rerun kldxref on /boot/modul=
es
> else a panic may occur.

I can check this on my 3.2.x systems in a little bit (the panic occurs
loading the vboxdrv for 3.2.0 or 3.2.1, 8.1-PRE and 9-CURRRENT both
amd64).

> I personally get panics on my FreeBSD 8 amd64 host running the Nvidia dri=
ver
> (currently v195.36.24 but occurred with earlier drivers too). This is wit=
h a
> non-X FreeBSD 8 amd64 guest and using ssh to the guest. I think it is
> panic'ing when transferring some files to it from the host. =A0Unfortunat=
ely,
> the system locks up completely, so there is no core saved.

I'm preparing to test the Nvidia 195.36.24 amd64 driver on my primary
system. I haven't had but one or two lockups using VirtualBox since
installing the 195.36.15 driver, so I'm leery of change ATM -- but we
need to make progress so...

> I would have reported both earlier but life has been very busy.
>
> Sean
> --
> scf@FreeBSD.org



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