From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 4 22:07:20 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A44316A4CE; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 22:07:20 +0000 (GMT) Received: from speicher.org (speicher.org [208.199.76.238]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6AFB43D48; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 22:07:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from geoff@speicher.org) Received: from speicher.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by speicher.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i74M7Jh2099691; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 18:07:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from geoff@speicher.org) Received: (from geoff@localhost) by speicher.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i74M7J9w099690; Wed, 4 Aug 2004 18:07:19 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from geoff) Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 18:07:18 -0400 From: Geoff Speicher To: Scott Long Message-ID: <20040804220718.GA99590@sirius.speicher.org> References: <1091649533.29481.42.camel@lanshark.dmv.com> <20040804203456.GA46377@parodius.com> <411152D8.2050305@alumni.rice.edu> <20040804213319.GB98953@sirius.speicher.org> <41115679.2030300@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41115679.2030300@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: Jeremy Chadwick cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Instant Reboots (was: Re: Postgresql locks up server - no response at all) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 22:07:20 -0000 On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 03:34:49PM -0600, Scott Long wrote: > Geoff Speicher wrote: > > >FWIW, in mid-late July, my problems were not PREEMPTION-related. I > >tried everything I could to get usable threaded apps under XFree86, but > >my Athlon XP rebooted every time I tried to run kdm, Firefox, etc. > > > >This included all four combinations of PREEMPTION and ULE/4BSD. Rolling > >back to July 1 was the only thing that worked for me. > > Yeah, the instant reboots have hit me too. Disabling PREEMPTION did > seem to help this for me, but then it might have been a coincidence. > Incidentally, what video drivers are you using? Snippets from /var/log/XFree86.0.log: (II) ATI: ATI driver (version 6.4.18) for chipsets: ati, ativga (--) RADEON(0): Chipset: "ATI Radeon VE/7000 QY (AGP)" (ChipID = 0x5159) (II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/radeon_drv.o (II) Module radeon: vendor="The XFree86 Project" compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 4.0.1 Module class: XFree86 Video Driver ABI class: XFree86 Video Driver, version 0.6 (II) RADEON(0): [drm] loaded kernel module for "radeon" driver (II) RADEON(0): Direct rendering enabled Hmm... but I also just realized that I added the following to my kernel config many moons ago: nooption DDB nooption INVARIANTS nooption INVARIANT_SUPPORT nooption WITNESS nooption WITNESS_SKIPSPIN Is it possible that's not helping? Geoff