From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 21 09:07:39 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA6E106566C for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:07:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pluknet@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f228.google.com (mail-bw0-f228.google.com [209.85.218.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E89C8FC1A for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:07:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz28 with SMTP id 28so7925164bwz.14 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:07:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:received:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=sGLB1li88yVIL7vw6DduvXyTqQoSldKlWkn4ZmVNoKQ=; b=iCiO157NnbSGUY6LR5Fhy9wg2i4557YGIQUUGKHo0JIW3kdulb+KTPbo9jQiwGYYcT BKohNs22Hnpa4up58B0SRvzpmb5YkmjDJ8RXyzjJNluVNZsDeFlWX16wH8es/f37B6j9 DkzoehF2oOmhijZ2KYfzNJMSyZyWrytr/cXWg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=DoI0EMDs7Nk3pHvMqgtEcjqfMIj+VwbfeKYVtwweWPNZ2J2eoBtxI66rL+x7mw+JMT Wk9j503zj19O+j2XHKMOODY8xtS/DCZQECrJ5s/wfEmZPEdJdqxCWzFlMAtPt3G3rbrH BEDSh/Q5aKetVoKyP3ku7RUSvae8apYido1tI= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.47.232 with HTTP; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:07:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200911301620.nAUGK9U3085078@ambrisko.com> References: <200911301620.nAUGK9U3085078@ambrisko.com> Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:07:37 +0400 Received: by 10.204.133.146 with SMTP id f18mr6181360bkt.153.1271840857274; Wed, 21 Apr 2010 02:07:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: From: pluknet To: Doug Ambrisko Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r198994 - in stable/6/sys/dev: bce mii X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 09:07:39 -0000 On 30 November 2009 20:20, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > pluknet writes: > [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > | 2009/11/6 Doug Ambrisko : > | > Author: ambrisko > | > Date: Fri Nov ?6 17:58:44 2009 > | > New Revision: 198994 > | > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/198994 > | > > | > Log: > | > ?MFC: Merge in minimal 5709/5716 support into 6.X extracted from curr= ent. > | > ?This is not a direct merge since I tried to only extra the changes t= o > | > ?support the 5709 from all of the other changes that have happened in > | > ?head. ?This should not introduce any issues that the other changes m= ay > | > ?have caused. ?We have been running this code for months on Dell r710= 's. > | > ?It has been lightly tested on systems with 5716's. > | > > | > ?This is to allow people to run newer hardware on 6.X. > | > | Very nice. Thank you. > | > | I'm afraid not all the chunks were merged since I cannot run on 6.x > | with my BCM5709. > | > | FreeBSD 7.2 - works > | FreeBSD 6.4-stable - does not > | > | It locks up somewhere in the late stage of multiuser (usually in a > | random step of rc.d) and getty cannot take the control. > | Here it still pings via network, I can achieve ssh stage where ssh > | warns me "The authenticity of host '$HOST' can't be established." > | If I type "yes", then it stops here and no go. After return from ddb > | it stops even ping until next reboot. > | > | I use boot via NFS/PXE, so it may interfere there, since rc.d usually > | write something to disk, which is NFS-mounted here. > | So it probably could run fine if booting from a local disk (I can't > | test this setup). > > You might try to instrument the rc stuff even though you mention it > appears random. =A0Might try to make sure that it isn't re-initializing > the network or something like that. =A0I tried with a fresh checkout > of 6-stable and I PXE booted it fine. =A0A side note is that Dell's > have a bug with their uarts starting with the 2950 rev 2 in which > the TX does work with the speed that we do the reset. =A0RX works > fine so you can recover it with a {Ctrl}d since it doesn't always > fail. > > | I've attached dmesg (doesn't differs much from 7.2) and some ddb output= below. > | Looking in alltrace I see no obvious lockups, no nfs stuck. But > | sometimes sh stucks somewhere in nfsreq. > | > | The same box boots fine via NFS on different NFS setup with 7.2, > | a different (in h/w) box boots fine on these NFS setup and NFS root, > | so no mistakes in setup part. > | > | I remember that back to August I tried to boot 6.4 with what is in bce > | of RELENG_7 on this box and it booted fine and I xmitted some traffic > | with it. > | So I guess the problem is in NFS-boot. > | > | I'll try to find ways to boot the system locally and report back.. > > I didn't see anything in the logs. > > Doug A. > For archives: It tried to boot 6.4-STABLE one more time recently and all's fine. Shame on me and sorry for noise. --=20 wbr, pluknet