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Date:      Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:20:31 -0400
From:      Brian Fundakowski Feldman <green@freebsd.org>
To:        Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: consistent hard lockup with recent kernels
Message-ID:  <20040715212031.GB1626@green.homeunix.org>
In-Reply-To: <1089924060.1074.7.camel@server.mcneil.com>
References:  <1089924060.1074.7.camel@server.mcneil.com>

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On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 01:41:00PM -0700, Sean McNeil wrote:
> I get a very repeatable hard freeze of the system when I use firefox and
> attempt to download a large iso image.  I've been trying to get a livecd
> image from a gentoo.org mirror (needed for something else, I'm a FreeBSD
> fan, honest!!) ;)
> 
> I suppose this is related to the preemption issues, but don't have
> anything to show for it except my dmegs.  I can't access the system at
> all to see why it is happening.

Can you run it in an X session on another host, and be at the console
(for DDB+KDB access)?  Can you start it and switch to the console, for
same reason, before it locks up?

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  <> green@FreeBSD.org                               \  The Power to Serve! \
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