From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 17 00:02:29 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: FreeBSD-stable@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E6121065695 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:02:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rorya+freebsd.org@TrueStep.com) Received: from Tserver.TrueStep.com (Tserver.TrueStep.com [64.253.96.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 037198FC23 for ; Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:02:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rorya+freebsd.org@TrueStep.com) Received: from Cypher.TrueStep (Cypher.TrueStep [10.101.1.8]) (authenticated bits=0) by Tserver.TrueStep.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id mAH02Jjg040907 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:02:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rorya+freebsd.org@TrueStep.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=TrueStep.com; s=default; t=1226880145; bh=Su8IzqGamREsuHnjeB5XQJwzLSG/H+96WILUD3h wDzE=; h=Cc:Message-Id:From:To:In-Reply-To:Content-Type: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Mime-Version:Subject:Date:References; b=SNorPDO7l4Pr/ovVMgYabB2RMXdCzav/fLKyNAWnd2ZQTFWYsiHX5FbWHHqnstRMq 5Tg1lCsKZVdYv0pcrC1X0qJReLvj+yEGu9XxYW5sceWvCN+bmuoI4a+K2FRRGXiwYPp G7r3j22ynQsfrkfZHnWNse0BSBh2Uz/EmNsvK2I= Message-Id: From: Rory Arms To: barbara In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v929.2) Date: Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:02:19 -0500 References: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.929.2) Cc: kensmith , FreeBSD-stable Subject: Re: 6.4-RC2 crashes after a few minutes of uptime 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: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:02:29 -0000 On 2008-11-16, at 17:28 , barbara wrote: >>> Hi Rory, >>> >>> did you see my replies or are you missing them for any reason? >> >> Yes, I have seen your replies. I must have missed the PR you >> mentioned >> last time, sorry. > > No problem! > >>> Your panics and >>> some aspects about how they happens look like mine to me, look here: >>> http: >>> //lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-October/ >>> 045865.html >> >> Yes, indeed. That looks very similar to the issue I'm running into >> with 6.4-RC2 as well. Sounds like it might be a regression in ata(4). >> At least you were able to open the core dump. Are you still able to >> open core dumps with RC2? >> > > I'm not sure. I'm running STABLE and I had no panics after the > branch has changed to RC2. It seems that my panics are not frequent > as yours. > Anyway my box freezed a couple of times after last newvers.sh and > the symptoms looked like the same, with messages about acd0. I was > able to ping it but it won't let me ssh in, like it was using all > the cpus. > > About kgdb... > I never used freebsd-update, so sorry if I'm saying something > stupid, but could it be the case that the kernel has been built > without debugging symbols or something like that? Does freebsd- > update provide a kernel.debug? I haven't had to use a the kernel.debug file in the obj dir in a long time. As far as I know, these days, the GENERIC kernel includes debug symbols. And in cases when there aren't any debug symbols, that shouldn't prevent kgdb from loading, I wouldn't think. - rory