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Date:      Mon, 24 Jul 2017 17:10:35 +0100
From:      Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "re@freebsd.org" <re@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: The 11.1-RC3 can only boot and attach disks in "Safe mode", otherwise gets stuck attaching
Message-ID:  <c9b444f1-cb74-8402-4033-0d6161739e8f@multiplay.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <10649c9070bc419d93ae2a87a511d2ba@ijs.si>
References:  <e4acc16980fe65751325333870bf2b68@ijs.si> <20170717232434.GB21048@wkstn-mjohnston.west.isilon.com> <c8140f430fb2af93a6bc70a3df8cdadc@ijs.si> <9b3563aae75aa954d7fe31ffe25e1d29@ijs.si> <20170720000325.GB9198@wkstn-mjohnston.west.isilon.com> <81295bcacd7c44813de8d346c88cbb65@ijs.si> <20170724021504.GA97170@raichu> <10649c9070bc419d93ae2a87a511d2ba@ijs.si>

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Based on your boot info you're using mps, so this could be related to 
mps fix committed to stable/11 today by ken@
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/321415

re@ cc'ed as this could cause hangs for others too on 11.1-RELEASE if 
this is the case.

     Regards
     Steve

On 24/07/2017 15:55, Mark Martinec wrote:
>> Thanks! Tried it, and the message (or a backtrace) does not show
>> during a boot of a generic (patched) kernel, at least not in
>> the last 40-lines screen before the hang occurs.
>> (It also does not show during a "Safe mode" successful boot.)
>
> Btw (may or may not be relevant): after the above experiment
> I have rebooted the machine in "Safe mode" (generic kernel,
> EARLY_AP_STARTUP enabled by default) - and spent some time
> doing non-intensive interactive work on this host (web browsing,
> editor, shell, all under KDE) - and after about an hour the
> machine froze: clock display not updating, keyboard unresponsive,
> console virtual terminals inaccessible) - so had to reboot.
> According to fans speed the machine was idle.
> The /var/log/messages does not show anything of interest
> before the freeze. All disks are under ZFS.
>
> Can EARLY_AP_STARTUP have an effect also _after_ booting?
> This host never hung during normal work when EARLY_AP_STARTUP
> was disabled (or with 11.0 and earlier).
>
>   Mark
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