Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:51:51 +0000 From: Dominic Marks <dom@helenmarks.co.uk> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.2-PRE panic Message-ID: <20061121165151.0dd0956c.dom@helenmarks.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20061121164100.224D445053@ptavv.es.net> References: <20061026121447.7b75d077.dom@helenmarks.co.uk> <20061026131041.9da80977.dom@helenmarks.co.uk> <20061027105522.600f3359.dom@helenmarks.co.uk> <20061121164100.224D445053@ptavv.es.net>
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On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:41:00 -0800 "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Dominic Marks wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:10:41 +0100 > > > Dominic Marks <dom@helenmarks.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > >> On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:14:47 +0100 > > >> Dominic Marks <dom@helenmarks.co.uk> wrote: > > >> > > >>> Received this one this morning. I was in Gnome, just opened sylpheed. Had > > >>> a collection of other apps running, no particular high load. Debug kernel > > >>> and vmcore available for interested developers (592MB ... I've turned on > > >>> minidumps now.) > > >> > > >> And another, looks like the same again. This time I have a minidump (73MB) > > >> . Available for developers. I'm going to try going to latest STABLE and see > > >> if it goes away. > > > > > > And again, this time with latest STABLE. Help! (please) Ideas for a > > > work-around would be appreciated as well. As before crash info is available > > > to developers (93MB). > > > > If you have a serial console set up, could you compile DDB, INVARIANTS, and > > WITNESS into the kernel? When the panic occurs, run the following commands: > > > > show pcpu > > trace > > show allpcpu > > traceall > > show alllocks > > Has Dominic followed up on this? I am seeing the same problem on my > Athlon 4400+ system (running i386) and have been crashing 3 or 4 times a > day on a kernel from Nov. 9. Hi, no I have not. I disabled all the Gnome background bits, dbus, polkit and hald and it went away, and I didn't have time to come back to it as I need my desktop all day. > I just updated to 6-Stable of Nov. 21 and it has not yet crashed, but if > it fails again, I can provide the requested information. I really would > like to see it resolved for the 6.2 release if at all possible. I'll csup and rebuild tonight so see if it has gone for me too. > In my case, the crashes have mostly occurred when I was either not on the > system at all or when I was just logged into it via SSH from a terminal > window on another system. No X-server was running at the time of any > crash. (But polkitd and hald are started at boot time, so they were > running.) Thanks, Dominic
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