From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 21 16:56:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1629C16A416; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:56:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dom@helenmarks.co.uk) Received: from mailhost.graphdata.co.uk (mailhost.graphdata.co.uk [195.12.22.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D0BA43F90; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:51:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dom@helenmarks.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost.graphdata.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 263C611402E; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:51:55 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at graphdata.co.uk Received: from mailhost.graphdata.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mailhost.graphdata.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id qsVK5BbmBR1U; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:51:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from gdc083.internal.graphdata.co.uk (gdc083.internal.graphdata.co.uk [192.168.0.86]) by mailhost.graphdata.co.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 1915F114037; Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:51:52 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:51:51 +0000 From: Dominic Marks To: "Kevin Oberman" 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> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.9 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: stable@freebsd.org, Robert Watson Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.2-PRE panic X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 16:56:52 -0000 On Tue, 21 Nov 2006 08:41:00 -0800 "Kevin Oberman" wrote: > On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Fri, 27 Oct 2006, Dominic Marks wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:10:41 +0100 > > > Dominic Marks wrote: > > > > > >> On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:14:47 +0100 > > >> Dominic Marks 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