From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 7 14:25:45 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 C8B1A106568A for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 14:25:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A94D98FC08 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 14:25:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.43]) by QMTA07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Pp2R1a0080vp7WLA7qRlbk; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:25:45 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA05.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id PqRj1a0032P6wsM8RqRjvb; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:25:44 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=8-XLinYytlwA:10 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=AGxyCiwKAaSLzVcA9KQA:9 a=N0W81LYKLOpJERH9RPwA:7 a=WVaTCWOdKFXUO_cywV7iO4tNS5MA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=SV7veod9ZcQA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D5CC0C9419; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 07:25:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 07:25:42 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Gerrit =?iso-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= Message-ID: <20081007142542.GA51071@icarus.home.lan> References: <20080807132947.061d24eb.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <20081007143724.a01502e4.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> <20081007133710.GA50114@icarus.home.lan> <200810071002.56788.jhb@freebsd.org> <20081007161534.b62b6333.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20081007161534.b62b6333.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: d@delphij.net, jeff@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, John Baldwin Subject: Re: Regression 7.0R -> 7-stable? 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, 07 Oct 2008 14:25:45 -0000 On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 04:15:34PM +0200, Gerrit Kühn wrote: > On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 10:02:56 -0400 John Baldwin wrote > about Re: Regression 7.0R -> 7-stable?: > > JB> Do you have more details about the crash? Are you getting an actual > JB> panic with messages on the console, or are you still seeing hangs? > > Like it was before: system just hangs after displaying the probing > messages about the CPU cores; next step for a working kernel would be > mounting of the file systems (and changing from white kernel output to grey > system output). Actually, I think you mean mounting of the root filesystem, do you not? If so, others have recently reported this problem (hard lock-ups before or after printing "Mounting root from..."). > JB> When you get a hang, can you break into the debugger and get a crash > JB> dump? > > Is there a documentation somewhere how to do this? John can probably help you with the commands you need to type, but the FreeBSD Handbook goes over the general commands. As far as getting into the debugger, it's Control-Alt-Esc from the console. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |