From owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 29 10:36:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 664C516A492; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:36:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsd-unix@earthlink.net) Received: from pop-siberian.atl.sa.earthlink.net (pop-siberian.atl.sa.earthlink.net [207.69.195.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D67E843CB6; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:36:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsd-unix@earthlink.net) Received: from fl-71-54-28-212.dhcp.embarqhsd.net ([71.54.28.212] helo=kt.weeeble.com) by pop-siberian.atl.sa.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1GpMnX-0000GZ-00; Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:36:16 -0500 Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 05:36:15 -0500 From: Randy Pratt To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Message-Id: <20061129053615.9b92917f.bsd-unix@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <20061129043446.GI42090@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20061122165141.62427953.bsd-unix@earthlink.net> <20061122221136.GM29833@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20061122173035.de742bd0.bsd-unix@earthlink.net> <20061129043446.GI42090@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.10 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PVR250 hanging X-BeenThere: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Multimedia discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 10:36:17 -0000 On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:04:46 +1030 Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > Sorry for the slow response; I wanted to check with our machine, and > it was needed for other things. > > On Wednesday, 22 November 2006 at 17:30:35 -0500, Randy Pratt wrote: > > On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 08:41:36 +1030 Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > > >> On Wednesday, 22 November 2006 at 16:51:41 -0500, Randy Pratt wrote: > > > >>> I've had several freezes/hangs where the system is unresponsive and > >>> keyboard won't accept input forcing a power recycling and fsck. > >> > >> This seems more than just cxm, then. > >> > >> In general, if you're seeing this kind of behaviour, the output of > >> 'ps l' is of interest. The WMCHAN field gives information about where > >> (and maybe how) the process is waiting. > > > > # ps -auxwwl | grep cxm > > root 1156 0.7 0.1 1280 664 p1 S+ 5:24PM 0:00.30 cat /dev/cxm0 0 821 0 0 0 cmxrd > > root 826 0.0 0.0 0 8 ?? WL 4:33PM 0:00.03 [irq19: cxm0] 0 0 0 -60 0 - > > OK, this looks pretty much like lack of input. cat is waiting for the > completion of a read operation. It probably relates to this from /var/log/messages: kernel: cxm0: missing encoder EOS > >> When I get access to our PVR 250 later today, I'll compare some of > >> your other data. > > > > Great! I'd appreciate anything you can look at. I'm also willing to > > do any sort of patching/testing if needed. The box isn't anything > > critical. > > Unfortunately, I can't see anything like this in our application. > There are plenty of other bugs, but I suspect that they're mainly of > our own making. I am beginning to suspect the hardware combinations/settings on that particular box since moving the card to another box works as expected. Thank you for taking the time to look at your setup. It may be that what I'm seeing is due to some hardware/bios/settings that would be difficult for someone else to reproduce. I'll look at those again during the next hardware shuffle. Thanks again! Randy --