From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 16 02:13:36 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CA0216A4CE for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 02:13:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CEE943D3F for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2004 02:13:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 28CFC72DD4; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:13:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 267AA72DCB; Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:13:36 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 19:13:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Peter Jeremy In-Reply-To: <20041015082618.GR83620@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> Message-ID: <20041015191125.Q76846@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <20041011074219.GA39251@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <20041013071704.GQ83620@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <20041015082618.GR83620@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: current@freebsd.org cc: Andrew Li Subject: Re: HP DL380 hangs on reboot X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 02:13:36 -0000 On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Wed, 2004-Oct-13 18:21:56 -0700, Doug White wrote: > >On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 2004-Oct-11 19:18:52 -0700, Doug White wrote: > >> >On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Peter Jeremy wrote: > >> >> I have an HP DL380 running 5.3 and it will not reboot from multi-user > >> >> mode - it hangs after printing "Rebooting..." and needs to be power- > >> >> cycled (since there's no reset button). > > >> I've narrowed it down to loading kernel modules - the problem does not > > >How about building them into your kernel instead? > > That seems to work. But it doesn't solve the underlying problem. (I > have been kldload'ing digi because it originally didn't work when it > was compiled into the kernel). Well its nice to know that changing the disposition of the driver seems to perturb the problem... > >This could be just stale modules... > > Nope. Kernel and modules were compiled and installed together. Also > there was no problem running and the hang was when the kernel asked > the system to reboot - which is well after any modules have been unloaded. Sounds like the digi driver doesn't like being unloaded. Also leftovers are likely to be found during shutdown when the devices are being closed down and there's dangling pointers. Although ... The system doesn't unload modules on shutdown .. did you you it yourself? -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org