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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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