From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jan 5 10:40:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id KAA09485 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 10:40:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from kodiak.ucla.edu (kodiak.ucla.edu [164.67.128.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA09480 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 10:40:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from elm.cns.ucla.edu (elm.cns.ucla.edu [164.67.222.20]) by kodiak.ucla.edu (8.8.4/8.6.9) with SMTP id SAA26588 for ; Sun, 5 Jan 1997 18:40:00 GMT From: Scott Burris To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: 2.2-BETA hangs after a few minutes Message-ID: Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 10:39:38 -0800 () Priority: NORMAL X-Mailer: Simeon for Win32 Version 4.0.9 X-Authentication: none MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk To follow up my own message, I compiled the exact same kernel configuration from 2.2-ALPHA and it works perfectly on this system. So something bad has happened between ALPHA and BETA. Guess it's time to start diff-ing the kernel source trees to see what's changed :-( Scott > I've updated several of my FreeBSD systems at home with 2.2-BETA. One, > a generic Triton chipset motherboard works just fine. The other, a > Pentium system with the Opti chipset which connects the PCI bus to the > VLB (instead of the other way around :-() now hangs solid after being up > for anywhere between 10 and 30 minutes. No panics, no nothing, the > system just appears to be completely dead. I compiled a new kernel with > the debugger, but when the system hangs, I can't force it into the > debugger. This system used to run the August 2.2 SNAP without problems > and I have reverted back to that kernel. > > I'm happy to look into this further, but can anyone make a suggestion > about how to debug a system that doesn't even panic? > > Scott > > ---------------------- > Scott Burris > UCLA Campus Telecomunications and Network Services > scott@cns.ucla.edu > > ---------------------- Scott Burris UCLA Campus Telecommunications and Network Services scott@cns.ucla.edu