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Date:      Mon, 04 Jan 1999 18:13:20 +1100
From:      Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SOFTUPDATES hangs keyboard 
Message-ID:  <199901040713.SAA26417@lightning.itga.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 03 Jan 1999 22:22:23 -0800.

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Mike sez:

>What's clear is that you have something spinning in an interrupt 
>handler.  Soft updates may be triggering this, but there's no guarantee 
>that it's the cause of the problem.
>
>Start off by making sure that your softupdates files are symlinks to 
>the real thing, not stale copies.  Then add DDB to your kernel config, 
>and when the system wedges, hit alt-ctrl-escape, then type "trace" to 
>get a traceback.  If you can do this with a debug kernel (config -g 
>...) that would be even better.

My apologies for unwarranted assumptions.

OK, I've compiled up with DDB and -g and I get the following
(transcribed by hand, so mind the typos!):

_Debugger(msg=f01fa58f) at _Debugger+0x37 [../../i386/i386/db_interface.c:66]
_scgetc(flags=2) at _scgetc+0xd9f [../../i386/isa/syscons.c:3738]
_scintr(unit=0) at _scintr+0x17 [../../i386/isa/syscons.c:861]
Xresume1() at Xresume1+0x2b
--- interrupt, eip = 0xf01d0760, esp = 0xf482aeb8, ebp = 0xf482ad68 ---
_doreti(f482af88) at _doreti
_sched_sync() at _sched_sync+0xa4 [../../kern/vfs_subr.c:499]
_kproc_start(udata=f02283ac) at _kproc_start+0x32 [../../kern/init_main.c:311]
_fork_trampoline(21cc1589,c766f025,2521ce05,800008f0,2521d025) at _fork_trampoline+0x30

Asking DB for a panic at this point just hangs the system at the
"syncing disks..." prompt.  I assume that is the same problem.

FWIW: All this time, the Alt-Fn still works, until I tried to Alt-Fn
to the Xserver.  Then it all hung.

Anything else I can try?

Greg.

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