Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 07:48:59 -0400 From: Ernie Luzar <luzar722@gmail.com> To: Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots with splash Message-ID: <5628CD2B.2000902@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5627D8B8.7030901@netfence.it> References: <5627D8B8.7030901@netfence.it>
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Andrea Venturoli wrote: > Hello. > > I've got a problem with a 10.1/i386 box which sometimes reboots > spontaneously: no crash dump, no message, nothing; only a sudden reboot > with nothing in the logs. > I even added INVARIANTS, WITNESS, SOCKBUF_DEBUG, DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS, > DEBUG_MEMGUARD and DIAGNOSTIC to my kernel conf: nothing changed. > > I tried putting DDB into the picture, but it won't be brough up; again a > plain reboot. > > > > > > While doing all my tests (and kernel compilations), I was able to see a > lot of reboots happening when the consoles screen saver starts or a key > is pressed to get back to the console. > In /boot/loader.conf I've got: > splash_bmp_load="YES" > bitmap_load="YES" > bitmap_name="/boot/splash.bmp" > > The above image will appear on boot and as soon as the keyboard is not > used for a while. > > With these settings, a "make kernel" will only seldom get to the end. > > In fact, after putting 'blanktime="NO"' in /etc/rc.conf, I tried "make > kernel" several times: no problem ever. > > So I thought my kernel might have something wrong and I tried GENERIC, > getting the same results. > > although I've been using this setup for maybe 15 years, I'm starting to > think splash has something wrong!!! > > Has anyone else experienced this? > > Any hint on how to get sure data? > I know I could just disable splash and easily live with it (that's in > fact what I'll do for now), but I'd feel more comfortable if I could get > straight down to the cause. > > Any help appreciated. > > > bye & Thanks > av. > > Read the handbook section about splash. Your splash.bmp file has to be under 320x200 in size. For a bmp file over that size you need to also load the VESA module. vesa_load="YES"
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